ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,381, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Flexible assignment of TX-centric or RX-centric DRX configuration in sidelink communications" was invented by Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark) and Berthold Panzner (Holzkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user equipment able to communicate with other user equipments via sidelink communications determines a procedure to use for selecting a host of a coordination of sidelink discontinuous reception when receiving a connection request from a second user equipment, and based on whether a requirement for a flow corresponding to t...