ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,434, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods for contention-based sidelink transmission and reception and related wireless devices" was invented by Nafiseh Mazloum (Lund, Sweden), Torgny Palenius (Barseback, Sweden), Basuki Priyanto (Lund, Sweden) and Anders Berggren (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method performed by a wireless transmitter device, for contention-based sidelink transmission. The method comprises obtaining information defining a transmission resource pool and a resource reservation pool comprising one or more reservation resources associated with respective trans...