ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,087, issued on Feb. 10.

"Group synchronization signaling for efficient communications in sidelink systems" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A group of user equipment (UEs) for sidelink communications includes a master UE and member UEs. Any of the UE may measure one or more sidelink synchronization signal sources during a configured measurement gap within the sidelink communications with the group of UEs. A member UE may transmit an alternative synchronization source report indicating detected synchronization sources to the master UE. The master UE is...