ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,326, issued on March 4, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Message transmission method and terminal" was invented by Jing Liang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message transmission method and a terminal are disclosed. The method includes: transmitting a first discovery (discovery) message in a sidelink (SL), where the first discovery message is transparently transmitted between an upper layer and a MAC layer, and a priority of the first discovery message is determined based on whether the first discovery message is used for public safety; or the first discovery message is transm...