US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 15 for "Systems and methods to facilitate location determination by beamforming of a positioning reference signal" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,228, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods to facilitate location determination by beamforming of a positioning reference signal" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany) and Rayman Pon (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for positioning of a mobile device in a wireless network using directional positioning reference signals (PRS), also referred to as PRS beamforming. In an example method, a plurality of directional PRSs are generated for at least one cell for a base station, such that each of the plur...