US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 28 for "DRX operation for D2D communication" (Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,343, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"DRX operation for D2D communication" was invented by Shehzad Ali Ashraf (Aachen, Germany), Zhang Zhang (Beijing), Antonino Orsino (Kirkkonummi, Finland), Hieu Do (Jarfalla, Sweden), Ricardo Blasco Serrano (Espoo, Finland) and Congchi Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device (UE1) determines a DRX configuration for D2D communication. The DRX configuration is based on at least one timer maintained by the wireless communication device (UE1). Further, the wireless communication device (UE1) controls the at le...