ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,302, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment signaling for vehicle alerting" was invented by Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Shailesh Patil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify the UE is associated with a vehicle, such as being within the vehicle, or has established connectivity with the vehicle. The UE may transmit location information of the vehicle and one or more vehicle parameters to ...