ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,389, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for indicating a sidelink receiver" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a grant to a first user equipment (UE) that indicates a resource allocation for a sidelink communication, either from the first UE to a seco...