ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,168, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Coordinated sidelink resource allocation" was invented by Hui Guo (Beijing), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Pleasanton, Calif.), Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Sourjya Dutta (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a buffer status report for a first sidelink transmission to a device. The first UE may receive, from a second UE, sidelink control information scheduling the first UE for a time resource for a...