ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,710, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for inter-user equipment (UE) coordination-based sidelink communications" was invented by Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) sense sidelink transmissions to determine a set of resources that may be reserved by one or more other UEs. The set of resources may include a first subset of resources associated with a first radio access technology ...