ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,872, issued on May 19, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and device for resource selection assistance for sidelink positioning" was invented by Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad (San Diego), Yuhan Zhou (San Diego) and Philippe Jean Marc Michel Sartori (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device are provided in which a request for positioning assistance is received from a UE in a dedicated field of sidelink (SL) control information (SCI). A request for assistance in selecting resources for SL-positioning reference signal (PRS) transmission is transmitted to the UE. A set of on...