US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Dec. 16 for "Addressing of D2D transmissions by target geographical area" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,341, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Addressing of D2D transmissions by target geographical area" was invented by Congchi Zhang (Shanghai), Jose Angel Leon Calvo (Aachen, Germany) and Shehzad Ali Ashraf (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device obtains configuration information defining multiple geographical areas. Further, the wireless communication device sends an outgoing D2D transmission. The outgoing D2D transmission comprises an area identifier to identify one of the geographical areas as target geographical area of the outgoing D2D tr...