ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,183, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"User equipment and method for performing collision free communication" was invented by Narasimha Rao Thurlapati (Karnataka, India), Siva Prasad Gundur (Karnataka, India), Sapan Pramodkumar Shah (Karnataka, India) and Kiran Gajula (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein provide a user equipment (UE) and a method for performing communication in a mission critical services (MCX) off-network. The method includes: sending an announcement message for a slot reservation for a complete scheduling assignment (SA) cycle; det...