ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,629, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Assistance information for sidelink-assisted positioning" was invented by Jingchao Bao (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments herein, assistance data may be provided to a UE regarding an anchor UE that provides a reference signal via the SL interface to the UE. Assistance data may include information indicative of the coordinates, height, drift rate, beam characteristics, group delay, and/or other aspects of the anchor UE. The assistance dat...