ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,443, issued on July 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Intra-slot positioning signal muting" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selectively transmitting a positioning signal from a TRP includes: transmitting, unmuted, a first intra-slot positioning signal resource segment in a first slot of a transmission schedule in accordance with a muting configuration, the transmission schedule indicating which one or more resource elements to sound for transmitting at least a portion of the positioning sign...