ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,435, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for resource allocation by sidelink inter-UE coordination in communication system" was invented by Cheolkyu Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunseok Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to technologies for sensor networks, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC), and Internet of things (IoT). The disclosure may be used for intelligent services (smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail, sec...