US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Sidelink-aided hybrid network positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,582, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink-aided hybrid network positioning" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Jing Lei (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a high-accuracy determination the position of a light user equipment (UE) using a single base station are presented. This is accomplished by leveraging communications with a premium UE having a known location relative to the base station. Wireless reference signals measured by the light UE and premium UE, along wit...