ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,317, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Indications associating layer 2 identifiers with a user equipment for sidelink" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may establish, with a second UE, a first sidelink associated with a first layer 2 (L2) id...