ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,661, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Radio link monitoring for sidelink communications" was invented by Hyukjin Chae (Reston, Va.), Esmael Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.) and Taehun Kim (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless device may receive from a second wireless device, one or more configuration messages indicating: a radio link monitoring window of a sidelink between the first wireless device and the second wireless device; and a radio link monitoring reference signal configuration of the sidelink. Based on the radio link monitoring re...