ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,122, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bike lane communications network" was invented by Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Jing Lei (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may communicate with multiple beacon devices (e.g., road side beacons), where messages from the road side beacons may be transmitted over a sidelink communications link and may be used to determine a speed and/or location of the wireless device. In some examples, the messages may carry public safety information, location informat...