ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,178, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Sidelink discontinuous reception implementation method and apparatus and terminal" was invented by Qian Zheng (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implementation method and apparatus for sidelink discontinuous reception and a terminal. The sidelink discontinuous reception implementation method in the embodiment of this application includes: receiving, by a first terminal, a sidelink discontinuous reception command media access control control element SL DRX command MAC CE sent by a second terminal, where the SL DRX command M...