ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,124, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for resource selection and contention resolution in shared resource mechanism" was invented by Neha Sharma (Bangalore, India), Vikalp Mandawaria (Bangalore, India), Seungil Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chitradeep Majumdar (Bangalore, India), Anshuman Nigam (Bangalore, India) and Jungsoo Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for scheduling shared physical resource blocks (PRBs) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network and minimizing/reducing contenti...