ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,346, issued on May 27, was assigned to ASUSTek Computer Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus of handling device-to-device resource selection with consideration on discontinuous reception operation in a wireless communication system" was invented by Ming-Che Li (Taipei, Taiwan), Li-Chih Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Hsuan Kung (Taipei, Taiwan), Chun-Wei Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Li-Te Pan (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first device to perform sidelink communication. In one embodiment, the method includes the first device performing sidelink resource s...