ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,203, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transport block size determination for sidelink communications" was invented by Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE) may support direct communications with other communications devices (e.g., direct communications between multiple UEs). Direct communications may include, but are not limited to, device-to-device (D2D) communications, vehicle-b...