ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,679, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"CRC scrambling for SCI in NR sidelink" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Jing Sun (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Lik Hang Silas Fong (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for CRC scrambling for SCI in sidelink communication. A wireless transmitter may be configured to scramble bits of SCI based on a scrambling sequence and transmit the SCI to a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver may receive the ...