ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,401, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink unified transmission configuration indicator state" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Yan Zhou (San Diego), Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Jing Sun (San Diego), 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 first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, an indication of at least one sidelink unified transmission configuration indic...