ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,536, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Rank augmentation using sidelink and companion devices" was invented by Gideon Shlomo Kutz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Eliyahu Arbiv (Nir Galim, Israel), Assaf Touboul (Netanya, Israel), Michael Levitsky (Rehovot, Israel), Guy Wolf (Rosh Haayin, Israel), Amit Bar-Or Tillinger (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Oren Matsrafi (Yad Modechai, Israel) and Shaul Shamay (Rishon le Zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to establish, with a wireless device ...