ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,235, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mapping two-stage sidelink control with multi-layer sidelink data channel" was invented by Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for mapping two-stage sidelink control with multiple layer sidelink data channel. A first user equipment (UE) can rate-match a multiple-layer second stage of a two-stage sidelink...