ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,454, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Sidelink discontinuous reception configuration" was invented by Joachim Lohr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Jing Han (Beijing), Dimitrios Karampatsis (Ruislip, Great Britain) and Jie Hu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for sidelink discontinuous reception configuration. One method (800) includes initiating (802), by a first user equipment, a sidelink unicast establishment procedure with a second user equipment. The method (800) includes performing (804) sidelink communication ...