ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,418, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Measurement for sidelink communications" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.), Jose Edson Vargas (San Diego), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Hillsborough, N.J.), Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method for wireless communication by a network entity. The method generally includes generating a configuration message for a user-equipment (UE) to perform one or more reference...