ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,057, issued on May 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Packet duplication over multiple sidelinks" was invented by Jose Angel Leon Calvo (Aachen, Germany), Antonino Orsino (Kirkkonummi, Finland), Congchi Zhang (Shanghai), Zhang Zhang (Beijing) and Liang Hu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for communicating between devices using sidelinks. There is provided a method performed by a transmitting device for transmitting a packet to a destination device. The method comprises duplicating the packet and adding header information to for...