ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,063, issued on May 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling of joint alignment of UU DRX and SL DRX" was invented by Kaidong Wang (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects present herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. More specifically, aspects described are directed to enhancements to bi-directional alignment of discontinuous reception (DRX). In some examples, an apparatus may receive, from a first user equipment (UE), an indication o...