ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,020, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for positioning reference signal transmission and reception" was invented by Ryan Keating (Chicago), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark), Tao Tao (Shanghai), Daejung Yoon (Massy, France) and Kyoungmin Park (Gyeonggi, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for positioning user equipment (UE). A method for positioning UE may comprise calculating expected receiving time differences between respective expected times for the UE to receive positioning reference signals (PR...