ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,422, issued on March 3.

"Techniques for access link based reliability for sidelink communications" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for method for wireless communication are described. A serving network entity may receive, from a user equipment (UE) and via an access link, a distance-based sidelink message including an indication of a region of interest around the UE. In some examples, the distance-based sidelink message may be for relay of the distance-based sidelink message to one or more UEs within the region of intere...