ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,197, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink power control with unified transmission configuration indicators" was invented by Hua Wang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may select a sidelink beam for a second UE configured to be connected to the first UE based on a sidelink transmission configuration indicator (TCI). The sidelink TCI may include a sidelink pathloss reference signal identifier, or a sidelink power control identifie...