ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,367, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for communicating synchronization signals using cyclic shifts" was invented by Itay Ifergan (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Peer Berger (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may periodically transmit one or more sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs), which may enable other UEs to synchronize communications with the UE. A UE may apply a cyclic shift to one or more symbols of an SLSS in the time domain, which may differ...