ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,002, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for slot structure, channel access, and resource allocation for sidelink communications" was invented by Liang Hu (San Diego), Philippe Jean Marc Michel Sartori (Naperville, Ill.), Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad (San Diego) and Jung Hyun Bae (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may perform a transmission that may occupy at least a portion of a first slot and perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) sensing operation, wherein the LBT sensing operation may occupy at least a portion of an LBT gap, and at least ...