ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,042, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration for sidelink communications by a user equipment (UE)" was invented by Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user equipment (UE) for wireless communication includes a transmitter configured to transmit, to a second UE, a request associated with a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration of the first UE for sidelink communication between the first UE and one or more UEs that ar...