ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,277, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resource allocation for unlicensed spectrum sidelink communications" was invented by Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, an indication of multiple transmission occasions for a transmission of a sidelink communication in an unlicensed spectrum. The first U...