US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 5 for "On demand positioning reference signals and per band deployment aspects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,446, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"On demand positioning reference signals and per band deployment aspects" was invented by Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Jingchao Bao (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits a request for a first set of base stations to transmit on demand positioning reference signals (PRS) in a first band, measures the on demand PRS from the first set of base stations in the first band, measures periodic PRS from a second set of base stations operating in a se...