ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,231, issued on July 29.

"Methods and apparatus for configuring 5G new radio uplink positioning reference signals" was invented by Yinan Qi (Middlesex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a mobile terminal for transmitting uplink positioning reference signals (UL PRS) to a serving base station and one or more neighbouring base stations in a 5G New Radio mobile communications system. The method comprising: receiving UL PRS configuration information from the serving base station, and transmitting the UL PRS to the serving base station and the one or more neighbouring base stations in accordance with the UL PRS confi...