US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on April 8 for "Methods providing resource selection for D2D communications and related communication devices" (Finnish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,207, issued on April 8, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods providing resource selection for D2D communications and related communication devices" was invented by Congchi Zhang (Shanghai), Ricardo Blasco Serrano (Espoo, Finland) and Antonino Orsino (Kirkkonummi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes selecting a resource within a resource selection window for an initial transmission of a first Medium Access Control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) of a plurality of periodic MAC PDUs to be transmitted by a first communication device (TX UE) over a device-to-device...