ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,060, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel occupancy time sharing for sidelink communications" was invented by Sherif Elazzouni (San Diego), Giovanni Chisci (San Diego), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Jing Sun (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a first sidelink user eq...