ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,261, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Using automatic gain control symbol to indicate sidelink mini-slot" was invented by Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Wooseok Nam (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for using automatic gain control symbols to indicate a sidelink mini-slot. A method performed by a transmitting user equipmen...