US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Procedure and signaling for sidelink DRX alignment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,461, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Procedure and signaling for sidelink DRX alignment" was invented by Kaidong Wang (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for air interface and sidelink discontinuous reception alignment for inactive/idle user equipment. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a second user equipment at a first user equipment over a sidelink interface, discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration as...