US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 18 for "Supporting location services at a base station" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,504, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Supporting location services at a base station" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To efficiently support location services, a base station receives an uplink (UL) message from a user equipment (UE) (2002). The base station determines whether the UL message includes a positioning protocol message associated with a positioning protocol for exchanging information related to a location service (2004). In a first instance, in response to determining that the UL message includes the positioning protocol message, the bas...