ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,044, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Torrance, Calif.).

"Semi-persistent resource allocation for V2V traffic" was invented by Sujuan Feng (Frankfurt, Germany), Joachim Loehr (Hessen, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Hessen, Germany) and Lilei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an improved semi-persistent resource allocation for a mobile terminal (MT) for transmitting periodic data. The MT transmits information on the periodic data to the radio base station (BS), such that the BS determines the different possible transmission periodicities and...