ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,066, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment positioning" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a central network node, configuration information for reporting UE positioning information or distributed network node positioning information. The UE may identify one or more distributed network nodes based at least in part on respective connections ...