ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,315, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel busy ratio (CBR) for sidelink positioning resource pools" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Xiaoxia Zhang (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 user equipment (UE) receives a configuration of one or more resource pools to use for transmission, reception, or both of sidelink positioning reference signals (SL-PRS), and determines a sidelink channel busy ratio (SL CBR)...