ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,590, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"User equipment positioning" was invented by Joerg Schaepperle (Stuttgart, Germany), Juha Pekka Karjalainen (Sotkamo, Finland) and Mikko Saily (Laukkoski, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure relate to User Equipment positioning. Certain examples provide an apparatus (10), for example such as a RAN node (120) or a Location server (140), configured to: determine Position Reference Signal, PRS, configuration information (605, 705) comprising information for enabling a network element, for example such as a UE (110) or a ...