ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,919, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink measurement reporting for sidelink relays" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Konstantinos Dimou (New York City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, the described techniques provide for performing and reporting suitable measurements, at a first user equipment (UE), on reference signals from relay UEs to determine which relay UEs to act...