US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on March 25 for "Positioning of low power user devices" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,345, issued on March 25, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Positioning of low power user devices" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark) and Benny Vejlgaard (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments relate to a solution for positioning of a low power device using sidelink peers. A target user device for a locally assisted positioning procedure may receive a trigger event to initiate positioning of the target user device, the trigger event originating from a location management function in relation to the locally as...