ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,495, issued on July 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multipath angle estimation and reporting for NR positioning" was invented by Roohollah Amiri (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multipath angle estimation and reporting for positioning is described. An apparatus is configured to receive a set of multipath signals for a set of VAs. Each VA in the set of VAs is associated with a corresponding reflecting surface in a UE communication environment. Reflection of the set of multipath signals occurs via the corresponding reflecting surface. The apparatus ...