ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,689, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interlaced feedback for sidelink communications via unlicensed channels" was invented by Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego) and Gabi Sarkis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Multiple transmitting user equipments (UEs) may send sidelink data transmissions. Receiving sidelink UEs may map sidelink feedback interlaces corresponding to detected sidelink data transmissions to sidelink feedback resources ...