ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,006, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Method and user equipment for performing sidelink communication" was invented by Chia-Hao Yu (Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a User Equipment (UE) for performing Sidelink (SL) communication are provided. The method includes performing an SL transmission based on a first set of timers configured for controlling SL Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) behaviors of the UE; and performing an SL reception based on a second set of timers configured for controlling SL Discontinuous R...