ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,109, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"DRX alignment for the sidelink" was invented by Dariush Mohammad Soleymani (Erlangen, Germany), Martin Leyh (Erlangen, Germany), Elke Roth-Mandutz (Erlangen, Germany), Shubhangi Bhadauria (Erlangen, Germany), Mehdi Harounabadi (Erlangen, Germany), Dietmar Lipka (Erlangen, Germany), Prasanth Karunakaran (Erlangen, Germany) and Julian Popp (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a transceiver of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to operate in a sidelink...