ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,990, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Resource configuration for sidelink communication" was invented by Mengzhen Wang (Guangdong, China) and Lin Chen (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques enable resource configuration for sidelink communications. An example method includes receiving, by a first network element, a sidelink resource request transmitted from a communication node. The method also includes communicating, via an interface between the first network element and a second network element, information about resource configuration for the communication node. Th...