US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Jan. 28 for "Network-assisted blanking of shared resources for direct communication links" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,037, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Network-assisted blanking of shared resources for direct communication links" was invented by Gaviphat Lekutai (Kirkland, Wash.) and Alan Denis MacDonald (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by a wireless mobile network to mitigate interference between communication links. A request is received for resources needed to support an application by a vehicle relative to another vehicle. The resources are configured based on the application and are used to establish a direct communication link between the vehicles. The resources a...