ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,391, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Sidelink positioning" was invented by Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Munich), Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark) and Knud Knudsen (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to sidelink positioning. In examples of the disclosure a UE is configured to determine Discontinuous Reception (DRX) assistance information for sidelink positioning. The DRX assistance information comprises information indicative of a DRX configuration information for one or more target UEs. The UE can then enable transmission of the DRX assistance inf...