ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,100, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Passive positioning with analog beamforming" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (Hyderabad, India), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Taesang Yoo (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Lorenzo Ferrari (Oakland, Calif.), Yih-Hao Lin (San Diego), Rajat Prakash (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provide for passive positioning of user equipment (UE) with analog beamforming. An example method for positioning a user equipment includes receiving a first positioning reference signal from a first base station at a first ...