ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,942, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Joint positioning using downlink and sidelink measurements" was invented by Qi Yang (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Yu Pan (Shenzhen, China), Mengzhen Li (Shenzhen, China) and Juan Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication method includes transmitting or receiving, by a communication apparatus, a Uu based information, a sidelink based information and a cross information of Uu and sidelink. In some examples, the communication apparatus is a target user equipment. In some examples the communication apparatus is a...