ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,983, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Inter-user equipment coordination for resource management" was invented by Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Wooseok Nam (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A receiving user equipment (UE) may broadcast messages containing inter-UE cooperation (IUC) information using multiple beams. The IUC information transmitted on each beam may be different for e...