ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,672, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Carrier phase measurement-based position estimation" was invented by Jingchao Bao (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a wireless node transmits an indication of a capability of the wireless node to support carrier phase measurements of positioning reference signals (PRSs) at one or more carrier frequencies for position estimation of user equipments (UEs). In an aspect, a position estimation entity receives the indication and transmits a message as...