US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 15 for "Determining transmission timing of a positioning beacon from a time of reception of a reference signal" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,194, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Determining transmission timing of a positioning beacon from a time of reception of a reference signal" was invented by Bilal Sadiq (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Tianyang Bai (Bridgewater, N.J.), Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.) and Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a first node receives, from a second node, a plurality of beams. The first node determines a time of arrival of each beam of the plurality of beams. The first node identifies, from the plurality of beams, one or more first beams of interest f...