ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,760, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Relative location reporting for UE based positioning" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) reports its own position using reference location information messages and relative location information messages. An example method performed by a first UE includes determining a first location of the first UE based on positioning measurements, transmitting a reference location information message indicating the first location, determining...