ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,323, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Unicast link management via radio resource control signaling" was invented by Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Pleasanton, Calif.), Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to managing a device-to-device communication link via radio resource control (RRC) layer signaling. In an example operation, a first wireless communication device establishes a unicast link with a second wireless communication device over a device-to-device communication int...