ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,275, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"PSCCH and PSSCH transmission on contiguous RB sets in SL-U" was invented by Jae Ho Ryu (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Sanghoon Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Hari Sankar (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides solutions to sidelink transmission/reception problems by preparing waveforms for multiple resource blocks (RBs) in a given bandwidth. Upon determining the availability of RBs or sets of RBs the apparatuses and methods of the present disclosure allow for dynamic determination and use of available sidelink frequencies. An app...