ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,595, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam-associated inter-user-equipment coordination" was invented by Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

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 involve enhancing an inter-user-equipment coordination (IUC) framework to enable user equipment (UE) to perform beam sweeping over the sidelink. Some aspects more specifically relate to fine-tuning beams, such as transmit beams or receive beams, using one or more IUC request...