ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,820, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Frequency range 2 (FR2) non-standalone sidelink discovery" was invented by Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Junyi Li (Chester, N.J.) and Gabi Sarkis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for non-standalone sidelink discovery. A user equipment (UE) may be capable to operate in two or more separate frequency ranges. In one of the separate frequency ranges, sidelink discovery may require a burd...