ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,475, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink position estimation procedure coordinated via a relay wireless node" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Rajat Prakash (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Athens, Greece) and Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a wireless node establishes sidelink connections with a set of UEs. The wireless node transmits, to a network component, a request for sidelink resources for a sidelink position estimation procedure associated with...