ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,414, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Timing advance (TA) determination for sidelink (SL) communication" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer-readable mediums for determining timing advances (TAs) for use in sidelink (SL) communications. A method that may be performed by a receiver (RX) user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a network entity, an indication of a TA for SL c...