ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,604, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink carrier aggregation" was invented by Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

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 user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network node, a first indication, associated with a sidelink communication, of at least one of whether sidelink carrier aggregation is supported or a first one or more component carriers associated with the sidelink communication. The UE may recei...