ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,297, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Timing adjustment in sidelink" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a receiver user equipment (UE) receives, from a transmitter UE, a sidelink reference signal over a sidelink established with the transmitter UE, and transmits a sidelink timing adjust (TA) command to the transmitter UE based on the sidelink reference signal, the sidelink TA ...