ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,931, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany).

"Method and system for optimizing the position of a user equipment" was invented by Mohammad Alawieh (Erlangen, Germany), Birendra Ghimire (Erlangen, Germany), Bastian Perner (Erlangen, Germany) and Sebastian Kram (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a method for a network entity (NE) to optimize positioning of a user equipment (UE) based on static circumstances and situational/environmental circumstances. The static circumstances may be sensor capabilities and sensor quality r...