ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,320, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distance-based NACK procedures in a vehicular platoon" was invented by Mohit Narula (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Hui Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE), such as a vehicle UE may receive an indication of a change in a formation of a vehicle grouping, such as a platoon, with which the UE is associated, the vehicle grouping including a plurality of vehicles moving as a group based on sidelink communications between members of the group. The UE ma...