ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,486, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for NR sidelink SS/PBCH block" was invented by Hongbo Si (Plano, Texas) and Li Guo (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a first UE comprises: determining a sidelink synchronization identity (SL-SID) and a set of resources; generating at least one sidelink synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (S-SSB) based on the SL-SID and the set of resources, wherein each S-SSB of the at least one S-SSB includes first two symbols for a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS) and second two ...