ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,235, issued on July 28, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Wireless communication of positioning through sidelink" was invented by Yu Pan (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Weiqiang Du (Shenzhen, China), Junpeng Lou (Shenzhen, China), Weimin Xing (Shenzhen, China) and Jing Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sidelink communications may be used for positioning between devices. The sidelink based communications may be between equipment ("UE") and/or with other network nodes, such as a basestation. The sidelink positioning information may be used for location determination. This may include ...