ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,036, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel access priority class table for unlicensed sidelink" was invented by Chih-Hao Liu (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Giovanni Chisci (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to selection of a channel access priority class (CAPC) table for a sidelink channel access procedure on an unlicensed carrier in a sidelink network. A wireless communication device (e.g., a UE or sidelink device) may select between a downlink CAPC table and an uplink CAPC table based on at least one of a sid...