ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,868, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Handover procedures involving sidelink communications" was invented by Andreas Falkenberg (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for wireless communications is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a first base station, one or more first messages that include measurement configuration parameters and sidelink parameters associated with a first cell. The UE establishes a sidelink with a second UE based on the sidelink parameters and transmits, to the first base station, a measurement report based on the measure...