US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Method and apparatus for efficient positioning" (Danish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,510, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for efficient positioning" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark) and Diomidis Michalopoulos (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including: circuitry for listening to a PM SL broadcast or multicast broadcasted by a reference UE-S; circuitry for receiving a positioning measurement request from a location server, wherein the positioning measurement request includes a reduced list of transmission points providing PRS to be measured, said reduced list containing a subset of transmission points to be measured ...