ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,824, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for joint demodulation via proximity services" was invented by Aviv Regev (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Ronen Shaked (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Michael Levitsky (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may transmit, in accordance with proximity-based service (ProSe) discovery with a network entity, a first capability message indicative of a first capability of the first UE to perform ProSe communications. The first UE may transmi...