ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,988, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink mini-slot operation in modes 1 and 2" was invented by Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for mini-slot operation in sidelink communications. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining a mini-slot within a configured sidelink slot in which to perform sidelink transmission, and performing the sidelink transmission in the mini-slot." ...