ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,357, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and techniques for sidelink communication" was invented by Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sidelink communication. One example method generally comprises identifying, by a wireless device, a frequency of a sidelink operation being unlicensed spectrum. The wireless device may detect whether a synchronization signal is on one or more carriers overlapping with the frequency, and in response to the detection, determine whether to enable the sidelin...