ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,386, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enabling sidelink full duplex communication" was invented by Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Hui Guo (Beijing), Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus may be a base station configured to receive a request for resources for transmission of a first SL communication; to determine one or more destination IDs associated with the transmission of the first SL communication; to determine, based on the one or more determined destination IDs...