US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 14 for "Joint sidelink and uplink/downlink positioning" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,294, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Joint sidelink and uplink/downlink positioning" was invented by Yiqing Cao (Beijing), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Jing Lei (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE includes: an interface comprising at least one of a receiver and a transmitter; a memory; and a processor, communicatively coupled to the interface and the memory, configured to: identify a processing conflict for an exchange of a first UE-to-UE location reference signal and an exchange of a first radio-network-interface si...