ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,040, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for sidelink control connection with carrier aggregation" was invented by Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Peng Cheng (Beijing), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may support carrier aggregation for a sidelink control connection, such as a PC5 or radio resource control (RRC) connection with another U...