US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 2 for "Sidelink-based ranging and positioning utilizing positioning reference signal (PRS) messages" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,231, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink-based ranging and positioning utilizing positioning reference signal (PRS) messages" was invented by Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE transmits, to at least one UE, a PRS request message, the transmitted PRS request message including one or more parameters including at least one of: an SL ranging protocol version, one or more supported PRS channels, a supported per-channel PRS bandwidth, an initiator UE-assigned PRS Tx time, or a post-PRS Tx time. The UE r...