ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,192, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"NR sidelink discontinuous reception" was invented by Sarun Selvanesan (Berlin), Baris Goektepe (Berlin), Roya Ebrahim Rezagah (Berlin), Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin), Thomas Wirth (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin) and Cornelius Hellge (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system has a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE communicates with one or more further UEs using a sidelink, SL. To operate in a Discontinuous Recept...