ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,010, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nokia Technologie Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Multipath estimation and multi-line-of-sight detection for localization" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark) and Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided apparatuses, methods and computer program products. In accordance with an embodiment, there is disclosed a method including receiving positioning reference signals from a positioning signal transmitter; forming a delay search space from the received positioning reference signals to obtain a plurality of channel taps; estimating a noise precision ...