ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,896, issued on June 2.

"Power-saving NR (new radio) sidelink transmission and reception method" was invented by Bo Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a power-saving NR sidelink transmission and reception method, including: in DRX mode, Tx-UE transmitting initial TB within On-Duration, reserving periodic or non-periodic resources for the retransmission of the initial TB or transmission of other TBs, and configuring at least one first DRX timer if the number of periodic or non-periodic resources is less than or equal to N, where N is a natural number, the Tx-UE performing channel sensing in t...