US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "Reduced capability user equipment identification for sidelink communications" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,087, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reduced capability user equipment identification for sidelink communications" was invented by Chao Wei (Beijing), Jing Dai (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects include an apparatus and method of wireless communication by a reduced capability user equipment (RedCap UE) in a network, comprising sending, to a non-RedCap UE, an indication indicating the RedCap UE as a RedCap UE device. The aspects further include performing sidelink communications with the non-RedCap UE in accordance with capabilities of the RedCap UE."

The pate...