ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,327, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink control message for sidelink position estimation procedure" was invented by Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Arthur Gubeskys (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first UE determines a set of resources for transmission of one or more sidelink PRSs. The first UE transmits a sidelink control message to reserve the set of resources for the transmission of the one or more sidelink PRSs. In another aspect...