ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,497, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Positioning of terminal devices" was invented by Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark) and Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To facilitate positioning a user device, the user device is configured to measure, per an antenna array, reference signals received from transmission-reception points and to check, whether a downlink reference signal from a transmission-reception point is received in a serving antenna array and in one or more non-serving...