ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,324, issued on June 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).
"Method of setting reserved subframes for resource pool, user equipment, and base station" was invented by Lilei Wang (Beijing) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of setting reserved subframes for indication of a resource pool by a bitmap, a user equipment, and a base station. In the present disclosure, the resource pool is used for transmitting or receiving sidelink signals within a system frame number cycle that includes predefined subframes and...