ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,385, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for indicating a configuration using a resource allocation indication" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may be configured to transmit a first sidelink control information (SCI) message associated with a first sidelink transmission from the first UE, the first SCI including a first indication of a first set of resources reserved for retransmissions of the first sidelink tra...