ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,941, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink discovery messages for beam training and onboarding of initiator user equipments to sidelink user equipment groups" was invented by Kaidong Wang (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a UE (e.g., an initiator UE) transmits sidelink discovery messages for beam training on a bandwidth associated with DMRS. One or more UEs (e.g., candidate responder UEs) select a beam to pair with a beam associated w...