ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,099, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distance-dependent position reference signal (PRS) configuration" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for distance-dependent positioning of a user device (UE) performed by a location server, the method comprising: sending, to a transmission/reception point (TRP), a first configuration for distance-dependent position reference signal (PRS) resource sets, the distance-dependent PRS resource sets comprising at least: a fi...