ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,383, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reservation of cyclic prefix (CP) extension (CPE) based channel access in sidelink unlicensed" was invented by Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a transmitter user equipment (UE). The method may include transmitting, to a receiver UE, sidelink control information (SCI) to reserve a future sidelink resource for a sidelink transmission to the receiver UE, wherein the SCI indicates tran...