ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,307, issued on May 27.

"Signaling for network coding of sidelink communications" was invented by Guangyi Liu (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for performing wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine at least one parameter associated with a sidelink communication. Based on the at least one parameter, the wireless communication device may determine a status of a network coding indicator corresponding to the sidelink communication. The wireless communication device may transmit the side...