ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,113, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sensing for user equipment (UE) supporting sidelink discontinuous reception (SL-DRX)" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego), Adesh Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product fo...