ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,856, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Configuration of sidelink positioning reference signals" was invented by Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Wanping Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Faraz Faheem (Santa Clara, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Kirk Burroughs (Alamo, Calif.), Sachin J. Sane (San Jose, Calif.), Sooyoung Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (U...