ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,564, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Methods and apparatus for partial sensing under sidelink discontinuous reception mechanisms" was invented by Yung-Lan Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Hao Yu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hung-Chen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. In the method, one or more first resource pool configurations for one or more sidelink transmission resource pools are received. Each first resource pool configuration includes a partial sensing indication of whether to perform partial sensing on a corresponding sidelink ...