ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,585, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network indication to control sidelink beam selection" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitting user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, a sidelink grant that indicates a sidelink resource and indicates a set of sidelink beams associated with a sidelink communication using the sidel...