US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Decoupled mini-slot sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling and resource reservation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,407, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Decoupled mini-slot sidelink control information (SCI) for scheduling and resource reservation" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Luanxia Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of wireless communication, by a user equipment (UE), includes selecting a resource from a dedicated physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) resource pool that has multiple potential PSCCH time domain resources with a mini-slot structure. The method also includes...