US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 4 for "Enhanced sidelink-aided hybrid network positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,180, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Enhanced sidelink-aided hybrid network positioning" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Seyedkianoush Hosseini (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Position determination for a target user equipment (UE) uses a single base station and a plurality of sidelink UEs with known locations. The base station sends a reference signal to the target UE and sidelink UEs, and the target UE sends sidelink signals to each sidelink UEs. A range-sum for the range between the target UE and sidelink UE and the range between the sidel...