ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,263, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for sidelink sensing and positioning" was invented by Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Yucheng Dai (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, for measurement and reporting procedures associated with a sidelink positioning reference signal (SL-PRS). In one aspect, a first user equipment (UE), which may function as a sidelink anchor node, may transmit an SL-PRS to a second UE in accordance with a slot format or structure that is...