US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 12 for "Joint network entity/user equipment-and-user equipment/user equipment ranging" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,010, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Joint network entity/user equipment-and-user equipment/user equipment ranging" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego) and Shailesh Patil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assisting joint network entity/user equipment and user equipment/user equipment (NE/UE-and-UE/UE) ranging includes: transmitting, from a first UE to a network entity, a capability indication that indicates a capability of the first UE to serve as an anchor UE for joint NE/UE-and-UE/UE ranging; obtaining...