ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,063, issued on July 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for sidelink channel sensing with mini-slots" was invented by Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a first slot-related channel sensing procedure to perform during channel sensing. The first slot-related channel sensing procedure may be one of multiple available slot-related channel sensing procedures. The first slot-related channel sensing procedure may indicate time interval...