ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,142, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for enhanced sidelink communications with clustered or peer-to-peer federated learning" was invented by Mahmoud Ashour (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Kyle Chi Guan (New York), Libin Liu (Monterey Park, Calif.) and Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided which allow a UE to achieve sidelink parameter coordination through various signaling in clustered FL or peer-to-peer FL. The UE provides a first ML model information update and a measurement associated with the update. The UE obtains an aggreg...