ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,061, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink synchronization techniques" was invented by Kaidong Wang (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sidelink synchronization in a network. A method that may be performed by a remote user equipment (UE) includes determining at least one synchronization priority associated with synchronization signals for synchronizing to a network, determining relay capability informatio...