ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,116, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Visual sensing for positioning" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support visual sensing for positioning. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving a first image of an object from an image capture device. The method also includes receiving location information that includes a coordinate point, a position of the UE determined based o...