ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,652, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Stand-alone sidelink communication over unlicensed band" was invented by Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego) and Yisheng Xue (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to stand-alone sidelink communication are provided. A first user equipment (UE) determines system parameter information to initiate a sidelink communication. The first UE transmits, in one or more first subbands of a plurality of subbands within a shared radio frequ...