US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 17 for "Soft grant for resource pool sharing in new radio (NR) sidelink" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,960, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Soft grant for resource pool sharing in new radio (NR) sidelink" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for sharing of a sidelink resource pool using soft grants. A sidelink resource pool may be shared between one or more sidelink mode 1 UEs and one or more sidelink mode 2 UEs. A base station may grant one or more sidelink resources to a mode 1 transmitting UE for transmitting dat...