ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,846, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Secure sidelink communication" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects present herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may receive, from a base station, a security mode command message associated with secure sidelink communication with at least one other UE. The apparatus may also identify,...