US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 18 for "Methods and systems for supporting unified location of a mobile device in a 5G network" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,319, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for supporting unified location of a mobile device in a 5G network" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Haris Zisimopoulos (London) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Location services for a user equipment (UE) are supported with a Network Exposure Function (NEF) serving as a focal point for any location request. An entity that needs the location of the UE sends a location request to the NEF in the home PLMN or Visited PLMN for the UE. The location request includes, e.g., a type of location r...