ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,051, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for managing in-band wireless communication by user equipment coordination" was invented by Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.), Sourjya Dutta (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego) 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. User equipment (UE) may communicate sidelink coordination messages to indicate potential interference and select sidelink resources. For example, a first UE may transmit a sidelink coordination ...