ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,433, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for activating sidelink carrier aggregation during a switch from direct to indirect communication" was invented by Ahmed Farhan Hanif (Versailles, France), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a first user equipment (UE), a second UE, and a network entity may support one or more configuration- or signaling-based mechanisms according to which the network entity may activate sidelink carrier aggregation (CA) between th...