US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for positioning of a user equipment in an inactive state" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,508, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for positioning of a user equipment in an inactive state" was invented by Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany) and Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Positioning of a UE is supported in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive state. The UE receives from a location server a request for periodic or triggered location and an indication of whether uplink, downlink, or uplink and downlink positioning will be used for subsequent location reporting events when the UE is in the RRC Inactive state. When an event is detecte...