ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,412, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coordinated sidelink communication" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to techniques for sidelink transmissions scheduled by network entities. A UE may receive a resource reservation message from a transmitting UE indicating resources granted by a network entity for a first sidelink transmission. The UE may detect a conflict between the first sidelink transmission and a second sidelink transmission and transmit a conflict indication in response to det...