US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 28 for "Method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling device-to-device communication" (Swedish, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,346, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling device-to-device communication" was invented by Zhang Zhang (Beijing), Muhammad Ali Kazmi (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden) and Santhan Thangarasa (Vallingby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (400) by a first wireless communication device (101) for controlling D2D communication between a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device (103) includes transmitting (402), to the second wireless communication device, a DRX conf...