ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,364, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Constraints on a source reference signal for quasi-collocation timing reference of a positioning reference signal" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.), Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany), Arash Mirbagheri (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques related to wireless communications. In an aspect, a network entity determines whether a source reference signal transmitted from a first transmission-reception point (TRP) i...