ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,710, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resource allocation for sidelink-assisted uplink transmission" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may select, on a sidelink of a user equipment (UE), a channel for sidelink-assisted feedback to be transmitted by the UE, wherein the sidelink-assisted feedback is associated with uplink control information (UCI) or aperiodic channel ...