ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,954, issued on May 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink power control" was invented by Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently performing and reporting reference signal received power (RSRP) measurements. In particular, the techniques described herein may allow a user equipment (UE) to effi...