ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,495, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mode 1 sidelink resource allocation under network energy saving" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) and related apparatus are provided. In the method, the UE selects a resource for a sidelink transmission based on a network energy-saving (NES) state of a network entity communicating with the UE. The UE further transmits sidelink transmission to another UE using the resource selected ...