ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,259, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink procedure of enabling resource conflict avoidance in resource allocation" was invented by Hui Guo (Beijing), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Pleasanton, Calif.), Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus decodes sidelink control information to obtain resource reservation information for sidelink communication. The apparatus maintains a mapping of the resource reservation information. The apparatus reports information comprised in the mapping to a base station."

The pat...