ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,709, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling methods for sidelink positioning for heterogeneous user equipments" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a target user equipment (UE) may receive, from an initiator UE via an SL interface, a discovery request corresponding to an SL positioning session, wherein the target UE comprises a plurality of transmission/reception points (TRPs). The target UE may determine, from the discovery request, the initiator UE is incapable of associating each TRP of the pl...