ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,174, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Continuous transmission grants in sidelink communication networks" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating control information are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a first sidelink user equipment (UE) may include receiving, from a base station (BS), an indicator associated with occupancy of a channel-access gap symbol and transmitting, to a second sidelink UE, a first ...