ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,076, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power consumption optimization under discontinuous reception" was invented by Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Yuchul Kim (San Diego), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

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 first user equipment (UE) may configure a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle of the first UE for a sidelink connection with a second UE. The UE may identify a mode that specifies whether the first UE is to receive a communicati...