ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,615, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User plane protocol design for new radio (NR) sidelink discovery message" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to discovery in a wireless communication network. According to one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may determine to use a service associated with a sidelink communication, determine a contents of a discovery ...