ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,740, issued on May 20, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Handover of sidelink positioning session" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark) and Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including transmitting, by a third user device, to one or more second user devices, a request message for requesting a handover of a sidelink positioning session established between the third user device and a first user device; receiving, by the third user device, from the one or more second user devices, one or more response messages to the...