ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,736, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"On-demand positioning reference signal configuration" was invented by Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany), Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are discussed herein for providing on-demand positioning reference signals (PRS) to user equipment (UE). An example method for determining a location of a user equipment according to the disclosure includes receiving a first assistance data associated with a first positioning reference signal configuration...