US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 24 for "Priority management for D2D communication devices as synchronization source" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,301, issued on June 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Priority management for D2D communication devices as synchronization source" was invented by Jose Angel Leon Calvo (Aachen, Germany), Congchi Zhang (Shanghai) and Shehzad Ali Ashraf (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A D2D communication device sends a synchronization signal to enable synchronization of one or more other D2D communication devices. The D2D communication device provides the synchronization signal with an indication that the synchronization signal is derived from a D2D communication device configured as a synchroniza...