ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,385, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Positioning in mobile communication systems" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark) and Istvan Zsolt Kovacs (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, computer program and method is described comprising: obtaining, at a receiver, during a first phase of operation, one or more first downlink positioning reference samples from each of a plurality of communication nodes of a mobile communication system, wherein the receiver operates in a wide-beam or omnidirectional mode during the first phase of operation; determining first...