ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,241, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Precoding for sidelink communications" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a first user equipment (UE) transmitting, to a second UE, a sidelink message that includes an unprecoded reference signal. The second UE may measure the unprecoded reference signal and select a precoding matrix. The second UE may transmit a precoding matrix indication (PMI) to t...