ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,183, issued on April 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and techniques for compensation-based secure positioning" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Lianghai Ji (San Diego), Mehmet Izzet Gurelli (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Qiang Wu (San Diego), Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.) and Karthik Anantha Swamy (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for wireless communications performed at a network entity. For example, the systems and techniques can include obtaining, at the network entity, a target relative time difference (RTD). A t...