US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 3 for "Sidelink scheduling request" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,985, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink scheduling request" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (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 request for a sidelink resource allocation. The UE may receive scheduling information identifying the sidelink resource allocation. Numerous other aspects are provided."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2, 2021...