ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,498, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for performing sidelink-based positioning" was invented by Woosuk Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Hanbyul Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Seoyoung Back (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaeho Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device receives information related to an absolute location of a positioning reference from the positioning reference; obtains a first PRS reception timing based on a positioning reference signal (PRS) received from the positioning reference; obtains a second PRS reception timing at which a second devi...