ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,736, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel estimation for two-stage sidelink control using sidelink data channel DMRS" was invented by Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel estimation for two-stage sidelink control using sidelink data channel demodulation reference signals (DMRS). A user equipment (UE) can transmit DMRS for the side...