ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,957, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for data rate sharing for uplink and sidelink wireless communications" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Gokul Sridharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chih-Ping Li (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects described herein relate to considering data rates of multiple interfaces in determining whether to decode communications received over the interfaces and/or to considering the multiple interfaces in determining parameters for granting resources for o...