ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,204, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Peer-to-peer beamforming alignment in new radio (NR) sidelink (SL) mode 2" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for sidelink beamforming alignment over a set of resources based on a deterministic sequence in a wireless communication system. In aspects, an sidelink initiator user equipment (UE) may initiate a beamforming alignment procedure with a responder...