ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,780, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiplexing sidelink-synchronization signal block (S-SSB) and physical sidelink control channel/physical sidelink shared channel (PSCCH/PSCCH) and fulfilment of occupancy channel bandwidth (OCB) for new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) sidelink" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Yisheng Xue (San Diego), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to multiplexing a ...