ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,937, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Peer assisted revision of positioning assistance data" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Athens, Greece), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) obtains assistance data for positioning from one or more sidelink connected UEs. Prior to sending the assistance data for positioning to the UE, the sidelink UE(s) revises the assistance data, e.g., by reprioritizing, reordering, or reducing the assistance data, or a combination thereof. By revising the assistance data the sidelink UE(s) pro...