ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,434, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling of a set of resources to support inter user equipment coordination" was invented by Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.), Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego) and Shailesh Patil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit compressed bitmap(s) to indicate preferred or non-preferred sidelink resources. A first UE may monitor a set of sidelink resources...