ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,185, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink positioning in presence of clock error" was invented by Chang-Sik Choi (Hillsborough, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method being performed by a first station and comprises: transmitting a first message including an indication of whether a clock reconfiguration event occurs at the first station; transmitting a first positioning reference signal (PRS); receiving from a second station a second PRS; and transmitting to t...