US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 8 for "Joint UU and sidelink positioning for user equipments in UU inactive/idle state" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,281, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Joint UU and sidelink positioning for user equipments in UU inactive/idle state" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network node of a wireless network may determine that a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection state of a Uu interface of the target UE comprises an inactive or idle state. The network node may determine a time during which the target UE will be in a sidelink (SL) active state, wherein the SL active state comprise...