ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,471, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for carrier aggregation in sidelink communication" was invented by Ying Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Lin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for carrier aggregation is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first wireless communication node, comprising: receiving a downlink signal containing first information from a second wireless communication node, and based on at least a portion of the first information, determining first resource information to perform sidelink communication between the...