ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,876, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Handling positioning reference signals in wireless systems" was invented by Jaya Rao (Montreal), Fumihiro Hasegawa (Westmount, Canada), Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Aata El Hamss (Laval, Canada), Tuong Duc Hoang (Montreal) and Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for handling positioning reference signals in a wireless communication system. The positioning reference signals may be assign...