US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 17 for "Methods and systems for support of location for the internet of things" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,904, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for support of location for the internet of things" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and techniques are described for supporting location services for a user equipment (UE) that is using Narrowband Internet of Things radio access or Cellular Internet of Things features to access a wireless network. The techniques include enabling support for a last known location of a UE, using previously obtained location measurements, when a UE is not reachable from a wireless network for positioning....