ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,002, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission with indication of geographic area" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Hillsborough, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Hillsborough, N.J.), Arjun Bharadwaj (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong Cheng (Bridgewater, N.J.), Shailesh Patil (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved manner of transmitting and receiving messages in sidelink communication is presented in which a wireless device receives sidelink control information (SCI) that indicates a zone ID associated with a sidelink message. The wireless dev...