ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,520, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"User equipment, base station and wireless communication method" was invented by Lilei Wang (Beijing) and Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to resource configuration for sidelink communication, sidelink discovery or any other sidelink operation in NR. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to determine a Bandwidth Part (BWP) assigned for sidelink transmission and reception in a carrier; and a tra...