ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,787, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mechanisms for managing user equipment on sidelink communication" was invented by Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Fangli Xu (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing sidelink communications among multiple user equipments (UEs). A UE operates according to a periodical discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle that inc...