ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,174, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and devices for sidelink transmissions" was invented by Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden) and Zhang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a first terminal device (1101) is provided. The method comprises: transmitting a signaling indicating a suggestion on one or more sidelink discontinuous reception, SL DRX, configurations to a second terminal device (1102); receiving a first response for each of the SL DRX configurations from the second terminal device (1102). The first response may indicate one of: fully accep...