US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 27 for "User equipment (UE) assisted backscatter-based positioning procedure" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,549, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment (UE) assisted backscatter-based positioning procedure" was invented by Mohammad Tarek Fahim (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location server receives measurement reports from one or more receiving radio frequency identification (RFID) stations, the measurement reports being based on a backscattered signal from an RFID device observed at the one or more receiving RFID stations, and the ...