ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,005, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Indication of positioning related information" was invented by Muhammad Ikram Ashraf (Espoo, Finland), Diomidis Michalopoulos (Munich), Hyun-Su Cha (Oak Park, Ill.), Ryan Keating (Chicago), Tao Tao (Shanghai), Shi Ming Zhang (Shanghai) and Li Yu Cai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for implicit indication of positioning related information. A first device selects a reference signal (RS) sequence from a plurality of available RS sequ...