ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,725, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Identifier reinterpretation in sidelink control information" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for identification reinterpretation in sidelink control information (SCI) are described. A first user equipment (UE) may transmit to a second UE or device, on a sidelink channel, SCI. The SCI may include a partial...