ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,286, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"FBE-based licensed assisted sidelink access" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Changlong Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to, at a wireless communication device, occupying a slot in a first subchannel, wherein the first subchannel comprises a sidelink subchannel in a licensed band, transmitting sidelink control in the first subchannel during the slot, except during a symb...