US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 7 for "Resource selection and prioritization of sidelink positioning operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,221, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resource selection and prioritization of sidelink positioning operations" was invented by Gabi Sarkis (San Diego), Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego) and Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sidelink (SL) positioning of user equipments (UEs) is supported by assigning priority values to SL positioning operations, e.g., transmission or reception of SL positioning reference signals (PRS). The priority value, for example, may be (pre-)configured or provided to the physical (PHY) layer from higher layers. The UE selects resources for the SL positioning...