ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,247, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for sidelink feedback channel slot format for mini-slot channel access" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Giovanni Chisci (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a sidelink slot format, wherein the sidelink slot format indicates a configuration of sidelink feedback resources. The UE may measure a signal, associated with a channel access procedu...