ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,341, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for granting resources for network coding procedures" was invented by Guangyi Liu (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego) and Gabi Sarkis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communications device, such as a roadside unit (RSU) or a user equipment (UE), may transmit a network coding packet on a sidelink to perform an efficient retransmission for multiple packets. In some systems, a base station may coordinate sidelink communications between devices, such as by granting r...