US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 5 for "User equipment positioning in long-term evolution coordinated multipoint communication systems" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,251, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User equipment positioning in long-term evolution coordinated multipoint communication systems" was invented by Rui Huang (Beijing) and Yang Tang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for UE positioning in wireless networks. Various embodiments may include signaling of virtual identifiers associated with remote radio heads of a coordinated multipoint communication system and generating a positioning reference signal based on the virtual identifiers. Other embodiments may be described an...