ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,235, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Gradual sensing for user equipment power saving in sidelink operation" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some cases, a sidelink user equipment (UE) operating in a power saving mode may identify a resource reservation configuration for communicating within a resource pool allocated for sidelink communications. The UE may operate in a first power state of the power saving ...