ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,883, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Prioritization of positioning-related reports in uplink" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Jingchao Bao (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) identifies a set of positioning sources, each positioning source comprising a positioning reference signal (PRS) resource, a PRS resource set, a PRS frequency layer, and/or a transmission/reception...