US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 20 for "Cluster-based approach to positioning of vehicles in vehicle platooning or autonomous trucking" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,902, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cluster-based approach to positioning of vehicles in vehicle platooning or autonomous trucking" was invented by Chang-Sik Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment in a vehicle (v-UE) may transmit ranging signals, sometimes referred to as physical ranging signals (PRS), via inter-vehicle messages. The vehicle may be designated as a representative of a cluster of vehicles, e.g., in a vehicle platoon, and may broadcast and receive PRS on behalf of the cluster, wh...