ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,784, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Scrambling sidelink control information in sidelink communication" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating scrambling of sidelink control information for sidelink communication are disclosed herein. The scrambling of the SCI may include scrambling CRC, scrambling information bits, and/or scrambling channel bits. An example method ...