ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,164, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink transmissions using slot aggregation" was invented by Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Guangyi Liu (San Diego), Tien Viet Nguyen (Bridgewater, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Wanshi Chen (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 first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, a sidelink transmission that spans multiple aggregated slots, wherein a first symbol in a slot of the sidelink transmission enables a decoding of the sidelink transmission b...