ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,640, issued on March 11.
"Method and apparatus for providing a positioning reference signal" was invented by Yinan Qi (Staines, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for a base station, for transmitting Position Reference Signals (PRS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises mapping PRS to Resource Elements (REs) of a frame structure, and transmitting the frame structure such that the power used to transmit REs containing PRS is higher than the power used to transmit REs not containing PRS. Methods, for a User Equipment (UE), for transmitting PRS in a wireless communication system are al...