ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,367, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Supporting network transmissions using unicast sidelink communications" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for supporting network transmissions using unicast sidelink communications. A base station (BS) may transmit a set of encoded packets to a number of user equipment (UEs) and receive feedback messages from the UEs that indicate sets of decoded packets. Based on the feedback messages, the BS may transmit an upda...