ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,749, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interference power control for sidelink communications" was invented by Min Huang (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Hao Xu (Beijing) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a first transmission from a first device to be received at a second device. The second device may determine one or more interference parameters (e.g., a maximum allowable interference power) for receiving the first transmission from the first device, and ...