ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,310, issued on June 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Device region estimation for near-field operation" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently determining a region in which a user equipment (UE) is located. The UE may perform measurements on reference signals received from a first network entity to determine the region in which the UE is located. In some cases, the UE may pr...