ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,197, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for resource pool and sidelink primary cell switching" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device may be configured to implement a procedure for resource pool and sidelink primary cell switching. In some aspects, the first device may transmit, to a second device monitoring a first sidelink resource, a sidelink bandwidth configuration message causing the second device to monitor a second sidelink resource, and switch a primary resource designation from the first sid...