ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,987, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Optimizing transmission of a sidelink synchronization signal by a wireless device" was invented by Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman (San Diego), Soumya Das (San Diego) and Mohammad Nekoui (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for performing wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine that a prospective position of the wireless communication device is in a geographic area associated with a deficient global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal. In some cases, the wireless communications de...