ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,713, issued on April 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatuses for configuring discontinued reception in sidelink communication" was invented by Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for transmitting a first message to a transmitting (TX) UE for discontinuous reception (DRX) by the RX UE for sidelink (SL) communication with the TX UE, wherein the first message includes a...