ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,014, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Positioning using a line-of-sight signal" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark) and Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer readable medium are provided for determining position information of a receiver device. The method includes determining a plurality of beams and combining received multipath signals from the plurality of the beams. The received multipath signals are generated by a transmitter device. The method also includes deter...