ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,257, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel tracking over sidelink" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to sidelink channel tracking using quasi co-location (QCL) information for a sidelink channel between wireless communication devices (e.g., UEs). A transmitting UE may identify the QCL information for a sidelink transmission to a receiving UE over the sidelink channel and transmit an indication of the QCL information to the receiving UE. The indication of the QCL information ...