ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,663, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Base station device and terminal device" was invented by Tsuneo Nakata (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station device includes: a beamforming setting information obtaining unit obtaining a plurality of beamforming setting information; a positioning reference signal generation unit generating a plurality of positioning reference signals using each of the plurality of beamforming setting information; a schedule information obtaining unit obtaining schedule information indicating a transmission schedule of the plurality of the positioning referenc...