ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,808, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink resource reservation enhancement" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a UE may transmit a sidelink resource reservation to one or more other UEs for reserving one or more frequency resources of each of a plurality of slots. The sidelink resource reservation may include an indic...