ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,241, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning reference signal bandwidth adaptation for user equipment power savings" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for reducing the bandwidth required to receive reference signals with a user equipment (UE). An example method for positioning reference signal bandwidth adaptation includes determining a target accuracy, determining a positioning reference signal bandwidth based on the target accuracy, and transmitting a positioning refer...