ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,329, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for sidelink beam operation in wireless communication system" was invented by Cheolkyu Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongho Yeo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngrok Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunseok Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinyoung Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system s...