ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,621, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Sidelink timing-based positioning" was invented by Robin Thomas (Bad Nauheim, Germany), Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, Germany), Ankit Bhamri (Rodermark, Germany) and Vijay Nangia (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One instance of a user equipment (UE) apparatus includes a target UE configured to receive sidelink ("SL") positioning reference signals ("SL-PRS") from a reference node and two or more additional UEs, measure SL reference signal timing differences ("RSTDs") between the two or more additional UEs with respect to the re...