ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,284, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Methods and apparatuses for coexistence of sidelink communications" was invented by Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark), Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Noerresundby, Denmark), Takayuki Shimizu (Mountain View, Calif.), Berthold Panzner (Holzkirchen, Germany) and Claude Arzelier (Varna, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for resource selection for a user equipment (UE) in a first sidelink communication. The method includes: determining, by a first sidelink commun...