ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,810, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Managing discontinuous reception in sidelink relay" was invented by Jung Ho Ryu (Fort Lee, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device can activate a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode having first inactive and active time periods allowing a user equipment (UE) to communicate sidelink control signals to another UE. The UE may receive a message from the another UE indicating an upcoming seco...