ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,597, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for precoding air-to-air sidelink communications" was invented by Qiaoyu Li (Beijing), Kangqi Liu (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

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 receive a message indicating geographic location information related to beamforming an air-to-air sidelink message via a sidelink channel. In some examples, a second UE may transmit the message or different as a message scheduling the sidelink message. The geographic directions to avoid when beamf...