ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,201, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Indication of non-preferred resources for sidelink communications" was invented by Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For instance, a first user equipment (UE) can determine one or more parameters associated with sidelink communications between the first UE and a second UE. The first UE can determine, based on the one or more parameters, one or more non-preferred resources associated with the sidelink communications. The fi...