US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Apparatus and method for sidelink discontinuous reception" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,012, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus and method for sidelink discontinuous reception" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland) and Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is directed to a method. The method comprises receiving a configuration of a resource pool for sidelink communication; determining there is a need for assistance from one or more other UEs in proximity in resource reservation or resource selection from the configured resource pool for SL communication of the UE; sending a request over SL for the needed assistance from the o...