ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,703, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Periodic positioning report enhancement" was invented by Jingchao Bao (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for a configuration for period positioning report enhancement. The apparatus obtains an indication of at least one of measurement instance related information or expiration time related information associated with a measurement of PRS for the location information report or transmission of the location information report. The apparatus generates the location information report based on a PRS received ...