ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,552, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink control channel successive parameter estimation" was invented by Amit Bar-Or Tillinger (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Michael Levitsky (Rehovot, Israel), Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel), Jacob Pick (Mevaseret Zion, Israel) and Shmuel Vagner (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, within a subframe, a plurality of sidelink control channel signals providing scheduling information for a plurality of sidelink shared channel signals that are also received within the s...