ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,163, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"NR sidelink transmission gap" was invented by Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Peng Cheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described provide for a wireless network to establish and implement periodic and aperiodic sidelink gaps. One implementation may include transmitting, by a first user equipment (UE), a sidelink configuration message. The sidelink configuration message may indicate a capability of the first UE to support a sidelink periodic gap and a sidelink aperiodic gap. A message may be received by the first UE indicating whether the first UE...