ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,136, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink reservation across frequency bands" was invented by Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Jose Edson Vargas (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to mechanisms for sidelink reservation across frequency bands. In some examples, a sidelink device may be configured to communicate over a first frequency band (e.g., a sub-6 gigahertz frequency band) and a second frequency band (e.g., a millimeter wave frequency band) with one or more other sidelink devices. The sidelink device may furt...