ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,649, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network based location performance improvement using DSDA" was invented by Santhosh Kumar Varma Vegesna (Hyderabad, India), Snigdha Byreddy (Hyderabad, India), Venkatarao Reddy Buddala (Hyderabad, India), Prudhvi Kodumuri (Mahabubabad, India) and Keerthi Chowdary V (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may improve positioning performance and latency for UEs with dual subscriber identity module (SIM) dual active (DSDA) feature(s). In one aspect, a UE establishes a connection with a first network entity and a second network entity ba...