ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,884, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Sidelink connection establishment assistance" was invented by Berthold Panzner (Holzkirchen, Germany) and Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for improvement of sidelink connection establishment assistance. Receiving (S61), from a first terminal, a request for a sidelink connection between said first terminal and a second terminal, obtaining (S62) first sidelink related terminal capabilities of said first terminal and second sidelink related terminal capabilities of said second terminal, ge...