ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,042, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Utilizing sidelink procedures to react to timing source outages" was invented by Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Jingchao Bao (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for utilizing sidelink communications in response to a timing source outage. An example method for utilizing sidelink communications in response to a timing source outage according to the disclosure includes detecting the timing source outage associated with a first node, determining a second node experiencing a loss of services due to least in part on th...