ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,742, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink communication techniques based on network link energy savings modes" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for a user equipment (UE) with concurrent sidelink and network link connections to operate the sidelink connection in accordance with a configured behavior associated with a bandwidth part (BWP) operation mode on the network link. The UE behavior may ...