ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,049, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Aided reception techniques for sidelink communications systems" was invented by Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Hui Guo (Beijing) and Gabi Sarkis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive, at a first transmission reception point, a first transmission from a second UE associated with communications between the second UE and a third UE. The first UE may receive, at a second ...