US Patent Issued to Innovative Technology Lab on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving positioning reference signal in wireless communication system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,102, issued on July 1, was assigned to Innovative Technology Lab Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving positioning reference signal in wireless communication system" was invented by Sung Jun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of processing a positioning reference signal are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes determining a narrow-band (NB) positioning reference signal (PRS) bitmap indicating a pattern selecting NB PRS subframes, wherein each NB PRS subframe comprises an NB PRS for positioning a...