ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,363, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Efficient provision of positioning reference signal transmissions" was invented by Diomidis Michalopoulos (Munich), Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland) and Juha Pekka Karjalainen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided measures for efficient provision of positioning reference signal transmissions. Such measures exemplarily comprise, at of a location service control entity in a mobile network providing positioning reference signals for location determination, deciding to suspend positioning reference signal transmission using a first posit...