US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 10 for "Systems and methods for support of on-demand positioning reference signals in a wireless network" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,507, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for support of on-demand positioning reference signals in a wireless network" was invented by Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany), Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for enabling on-demand positioning reference signals (PRS) with a user equipment (UE). An example method for determining a location of a mobile device includes sending a request for downlink positionin...