ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,718, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Physical sidelink feedback channel padding" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Giovanni Chisci (San Diego), Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. Some aspects more specifically relate to sidelink communications and PSFCH padding. In some aspects, a channel occupancy time (COT) initiating UE may obtain physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) information indicating that a PSFCH transmission is to occupy a com...