ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,669, issued on April 7, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method of handling active time for SL communication" was invented by Anil Agiwal (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyunjeong Kang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for sidelink channel state information (CSI) reporting in a wireless communication system. The method comprises steps in which: a user equipment (UE) obtains parameters associated with discontinuous reception (DRX); the UE transmits, to a peer UE, a CSI request; and the UE monitors a sidelink channel in an active time of the DRX for recei...