ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,553, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for power saving on sidelink" was invented by Xin Guo (Haidian District, China), Xiaodong Yu (Haidian District, China), Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China) and Zhennian Sun (Chaoyang District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is related to a method and apparatus for power saving for 3 GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 5G new radio (NR) sidelink (SL). A method for wireless communications performed by user equipment (UE) includes: determining whether a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) procedure...