US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 22 for "Discontinuous reception alignment grouping for sidelink and cellular communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,222, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discontinuous reception alignment grouping for sidelink and cellular communication" was invented by Kaidong Wang (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to aligning discontinuous reception (DRX) timing associated with sidelink communication. In some examples, a DRX alignment group may be indicated for a user equipment (UE) for the purposes of aligning the DRX timing of a sidelink connection with the DRX timing of at least one other connection (e.g., a base station connection and/or another...