ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,879, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resource allocation for repeater-assisted positioning reference signal (PRS) transmission" was invented by Jingchao Bao (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a repeater receives, from a network entity, a positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration or an indicator of the PRS configuration, the PRS configuration specifying one or more PRS resources of one or more PRS resource sets, and transmits, to one or more ...