ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,171, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Sidelink transmission method and terminal" was invented by Qianxi Lu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a sidelink transmission method and a terminal. The method includes: a terminal receives downlink information, which is used for indicating a resource license of a sidelink; the terminal controls, on the basis of a first event, a state of a timer related with discontinuous reception (DRX) for the sidelink."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2022, under Application No. 18/146...