ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,969, issued on May 6, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Beam selection during downlink positioning" was invented by Ryan Keating (Chicago), Tao Tao (Shanghai), Daejung Yoon (Massy, France), Stephan Saur (Stuttgart, Germany) and Wolfgang Zirwas (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to beam selection during downlink positioning. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal devices are grouped based on their characteristics and the anchor terminal device in the group determines the best transmitting beam of the neighbor network device. The non-ancho...