ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,383, issued on June 24, was assigned to PHY Wireless LLC (San Diego).

"Mobile-based positioning using assistance data provided by onboard micro-BSA" was invented by Steven C. Thompson (Solana Beach, Calif.), Raphael Mall (San Diego), Neal Riedel (Carlsbad, Calif.), Steven J. Caliguri (San Diego) and Zane Rau (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating position of a mobile device which includes receiving, from a network server, observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) assistance data for a first plurality of cells from a base station almanac (BSA) accessible to the network server. The OTDOA assistance data is ...