ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,994, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for assisting positioning over sidelink" was invented by Mate Boban (Munich) and Xitao Gong (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a location reference device (LRD) for assisting positioning over sidelink. The LRD comprises a communication interface configured to: receive a location assistance request from a user device or a network element for positioning, wherein the location assistance request indicates a location reference for a positioning of the user device over a sidelink; and trans...