ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,680, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"On-demand positioning of 5G devices" was invented by Shailender Potharaju (Fremont, Calif.), Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Clark A. Carty (Brunswick, Ohio) and Fred J. Anderson (Lakeville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: at a radio access network configured to communicate with a user equipment (UE) wirelessly, an access and mobility management function (AMF), and a positioning service, and through which the UE attached to a network using an attach procedure with the AMF: upon receiving a request for a location of ...