ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,697, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coded sidelink feedback for improved reliability" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego) and Gabi Sarkis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described herein. A user equipment (UE) may generate a set of feedback bits corresponding to sidelink messages received via one or more sidelink channels. The UE may transmit a first sidelink message via a first feedback resource of a physical sidelink feedback channel occasion. The first sidelink mes...