ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,186, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for radio access and sidelink discontinuous reception alignment" was invented by Kaidong Wang (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Aleksandar Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.).

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 transmit, to a second UE associated with a sidelink connection with the first U...