US Patent Issued to Apple on April 21 for "UE-based positioning using sidelink communication" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,343, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"UE-based positioning using sidelink communication" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes causing, at a first user equipment (UE), transmission of at least one positioning reference signal (PRS) to a second UE via a sidelink (SL) communication based on first positioning assistance data. The transmission ena...