ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,094, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for sidelink connectionless groupcast communication using a security key" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

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 user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a node, a request for a security key for sidelink connectionless groupcast communication that is performed without a radio resource...