ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,489, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discontinuous reception for sidelink" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego) and Tugcan Aktas (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device determines a discontinuous reception (DRX) pattern for sidelink communication and performs sidelink activity within a DRX ON duration of the DRX pattern. A wireless device may transmit a sidelink discovery message including information about a DRX pattern of the first wireless device and may monitor for sidelink communication based on the DRX pattern. A ...