ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,079, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission alignment for mini-slots and mixed numerology component carriers" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). In one aspect, a method includes determining that (1) a first scheduled sidelink transmission to a first receiving UE using a first set of component carriers and (2) a second scheduled sidelink transmission to a second receiving UE using a second set of component car...