ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,555, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for managing resources for SL communications" was invented by Weimin Xing (Shenzhen, China), Youxiong Lu (Shenzhen, China) and Haigang He (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for wireless communications are disclosed herein. In some arrangements, a wireless communication device determines whether a resource of a first resource set excluded from a second resource set is associated with a valid priority, and in response to determining that the resource excluded from the second resource set is associated with the valid ...