ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,310, issued on Jan. 27.

"Techniques for radio resource management (RRM) in sidelink wireless communications" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Punyaslok Purkayastha (San Diego), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects described herein relate to receiving and/or forwarding radio resource management (RRM) configurations for sidelink reporting, as well as measuring sidelink signals and generating measurement reports for reporting to the network."

The patent was fi...