ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,107, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Full-slot transmission detection for sidelink communications" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego) and Giovanni Chisci (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications systems may support a slot transmission detection procedure for sidelink communications. A sidelink user equipment may monitor, during a slot and within one or more subbands, for signaling associated with a first sidelink transmissio...