ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,080, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power control techniques for sidelink communications" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Jing Lei (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a UE may determine a power control adjustment based on sidelink messages received from other UEs. The UE may transmit, to the other UEs, an indication of the power control adjustment to the other UEs. The other UEs may transmit additional sidelink messa...