ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,428, issued on April 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for sidelink discontinuous reception" was invented by Zhang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for SL DRX. A method performed by a terminal device comprises receiving system information block (SIB). The method further comprises determining whether an access network node is incapable of sidelink, SL, discontinuous reception (DRX). The method further comprises, when sidelink, SL, discontinuous reception, DRX, configuration used for groupcast/bro...