ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,490, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Configuration enabling method and apparatus" was invented by Jun Liu (Beijing) and Junren Chang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a configuration enabling method and an apparatus. The method includes: A first terminal device determines first indication information, where the first indication information indicates an enabling operation determined for a first sidelink, the enabling operation includes enabling a sidelink discontinuous reception SL DRX configuration for the first sidelink, or disabling an SL DRX confi...