ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,453, issued on Aug. 12.

"Packet collision mitigation in sidelink" was invented by Cheol Hee Park (San Diego), Ralph Akram Gholmieh (San Diego), Feng Chen (Beijing), Jintao Hou (Beijing), Hamza Ijaz Abbasi (San Diego) and Giridhar Ramakrishnan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for collision mitigation in sidelink. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes measuring channel busy ratio (CBR), estimating a number of UEs using the channel, estimating a congestion level based on the CBR and the estimated number of UEs. A method that may be performed...