ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,862, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for enhanced feedback and link adaptation for sidelink groupcast communications" was invented by Stelios Stefanatos (San Diego), Arthur Gubeskys (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego) 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 first user equipment (UE) may be configured to transmit a first sidelink message via a sidelink channel using a first set of communication parameters, the first sidelink message including data and a reservation for a retransmission res...