ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,967, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method, apparatus, and system for sending data in sidelink discontinuous reception-active time of second terminal" was invented by Yu Cai (Shenzhen, China) and Haibo Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first terminal determines one or more sidelink resources. The one or more sidelink resources include at least a sidelink resource located in sidelink discontinuous reception-active time of a second terminal. The first terminal sends data to the second terminal on a first sidelink resource in the one or more sidelink resources...