ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,056, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sidelink paging for a wireless device" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for power saving for a wireless device, the technique including determining, by a first wireless device, a set of resources for communicating directly with a second wireless device the set of resources including a first set of paging resources, establishing a side...