ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,187, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems for in-coverage sidelink positioning" was invented by Alexander Sirotkin (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Munich) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed for side-link (SL) configuration of a plurality of user equipment (UEs), the method comprising: sending, to a transmitting UE (Tx UE) and a receiving UE (Rx UE), a request for sidelink (SL) positioning reference signal (PRS) capabilities data; receiving, from each of the Tx UE...