ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,994, issued on July 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Automatic gain control for sidelink communications" was invented by Nazanin Rastegardoost (McLean, Va.), Hyukjin Chae (Fairfax, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Bing Hui (Herndon, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Jongwoo Hong (Vienna, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may communicate with one or more other wireless devices via a sidelink. Automatic gain control (AGC) may be performed by a receiving wireless device. A symbol in a sidelink transmission may be ...