ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,024, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Ranging assisted pedestrian localization" was invented by Saadallah Kassir (San Diego), Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a first pedestrian user equipment (PUE) includes performing a ranging operation to a set of UEs, the set including at least a second PUE, and providing ranging data to a third entity, the third entity comprising a vehicle user equipment (VUE) or a road-side unit (R...