ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,358, issued on July 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Position estimation based on time bias between base station and reference user equipment" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (Hyderabad, India), Rajat Prakash (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Mohammad Tarek Fahim (Tucson, Ariz.) and Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a position estimation entity, obtains first timing information that is associated with a first time-of-arrival...