ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,682, issued on June 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Prioritized channel access for sidelink communication in shared channel" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Stelios Stefanatos (San Diego), Parisa Cheraghi (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Arthur Gubeskys (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) communicates on a shared channel using sidelink transmissions. The UE determines a channel access priority for the sidelink transmission based on a channel access priority for the UE, a channel access priority associated with a packet priority of the sidelink transmission, a congestion level for the...