ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,747, issued on April 29, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Method and apparatus for resource configuration for sidelink in Internet of vehicles" was invented by Lin Chen (Guangdong, China), Mengzhen Wang (Guangdong, China), Boyuan Zhang (Guangdong, China), Ying Huang (Guangdong, China), Wei Luo (Guangdong, China) and Wei Zou (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for resource configuration for a sidelink in Internet of vehicles. The method includes: a terminal receiving configuration information about a sidelink Bandwidth part (BWP)/resource pool; and the terminal performing s...