ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,829, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling sidelink auxiliary carrier in wireless communication system" was invented by Hyunjeong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangkyu Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a first terminal for performing unicast communication between terminals in a wireless communication system. The first terminal may be configured to: transmit a packet to a second terminal through a first sidelink carrier; determine a failure of the first sidelink carrier bas...