ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,127, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Spatial reuse for sidelink communications" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Lik Hang Silas Fong (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a first user equipment (UE) to manage the reuse of resources reserved for sidelink communications by the UE. The first UE may identify scheduling information for a sidelink share...