ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,686, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Channel state information (CSI) reporting for new radio (NR) side-links" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.) and Hong He (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station and a second UE, and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to...