ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,396, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission alignment for mini-slots and mixed numerology component carriers" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). In one aspect, a method includes determining that (1) a first scheduled sidelink transmission to a first receiving UE using a first set of component carriers and (2) a second scheduled sidelink transmission to a second receiving UE using a second set of component carri...