ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,541, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"NR sidelink discontinuous reception" was invented by Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Pascal Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.), Joseph Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.) and Kyle Pan (Saint James, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "SL DRX mechanism is used for power savings, to address a number of sidelink non-vehicular sidelink use cases. Methods, systems, and apparatuses, among other things, as described herein may use 1) A sidelink state model to describe the UE behavior for sidelink ...