ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,021, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cooperative and coordinated sensing techniques for wireless communications systems" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may monitor a set of sidelink resources for a first portion of one or more sensing windows in accordance with a monitoring pattern. The monitoring pattern may indicate a first portion of the one or more sensing windows or a second portion of the one o...