ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,644, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for sidelink resource information forwarding" was invented by Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may be configured to trigger a sidelink message to one or more UE of set of multiple other UEs. The first UE may then generate the sidelink message based at least in part on the triggering. In some cases, the sidelink message may include time a...