ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,408, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink retransmission of messages" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a second user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, at least one message, the at least one message comprising at least one of a first common message directed to a first UE or a first private message directed to the first UE. The seco...