ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,285, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning with a simple repeater" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (Hyderabad, India) and Mohammad Tarek Fahim (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support enhanced positioning operations using a repeater. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by the UE, an instruction from a base station (BS) to perform a first signal measurement at a first time and a second signal measurement at a second time; determin...