US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "In-coverage network controlled off-loading over an unlicensed sidelink" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,399, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"In-coverage network controlled off-loading over an unlicensed sidelink" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Lik Hang Silas Fong (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first sidelink (SL) user equipment (UE) includes receiving a downlink control information (DCI) from a number of coupled DCIs. The DCI grants reception of a number of scheduled physical SL shared channels (PSSCHs) over an unli...