ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,184, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for performing sidelink discovery in wireless communications" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Jing Sun (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects described herein relate to receiving a configuration defining resources for transmitting a first message in a two-step random access procedure, wherein the first message includes a random access preamble and a payload, generating a beacon signal for transmi...