ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,255, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink repeater capability signaling" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jianghong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method of wireless communication performed by a first wireless communication device includes: initiating a registration protocol for performing repeater operations for sidelink communications; transmitting, to a se...