ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,283, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sensor data sharing redundancy mitigation techniques" was invented by Hui Guo (Beijing), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego), Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.), Lan Yu (Beijing) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide techniques for applying redundancy mitigation rules when transmitting sensor data sharing messages. A method, performed by a sidelink user equipment (UE), includes observing, via one or more sensors, a set of objects in an environment in which the sidelink UE is...