ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,629, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discontinuous reception for sidelink communications in wireless communications systems" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego) and Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) information to a base station while operating in a connected mode. In s...