US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 4 for "On demand assistance for sidelink mode 1 communication" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,234, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"On demand assistance for sidelink mode 1 communication" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Sourjya Dutta (San Diego) and Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for on demand assistance for sidelink communication. The apparatus receives, from a base station, an AN configuration for one or more ANs associated with the base station. The apparatus transmits, to the base station, an AR to request assistance with communication with a second UE from ...