ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,418, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Uplink timing advance estimation from sidelink" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, an indication of a first uplink timing advance for communications from the second UE to a base station. The UE may estimate, based at least in part on the first uplink timing advance received fro...