US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 19 for "Method and apparatus for location of a user equipment in an inactive state" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,858, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for location of a user equipment in an inactive state" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Positioning of a UE is supported in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive state. The UE receives a request for periodic or triggered location and enters the RRC Inactive state. When an event is detected, the UE sends an RRC Resume Request to a g...