ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,447, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for sidelink power control and beta offset updates over shortened physical sidelink shared channel-based mini-slots" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Yisheng Xue (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for partitioning a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) into multiple shortened PSSCHs (sPSSCHs) within a slot and selecting a transmit power for each sPSSCH. In one aspect, a transmitting user equipment (...