ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,781, issued on April 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power saving in sidelink" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Yuchul Kim (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Karthika Paladugu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a power saving indication relating to sidelink communication. The UE may perform a power saving operation based at least in part on the power saving indication. Numerous other aspects are described."

The patent was filed on March 14, 2022, under...