US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 25 for "Validating and using map data for positioning" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,280, issued on March 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Validating and using map data for positioning" was invented by Neha Nagori (San Jose, Calif.), Han Zhang (Beijing), Himanshu Shah (Milpitas, Calif.), Abdelmonaem Lakhzouri (Fremont, Calif.) and William Morrison (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method being for facilitating positioning determination of a UE includes: obtaining motion information indicative of motion of the UE; obtaining positioning information based on positioning signals received by the UE; determining a validity status of map data based on whether the positioning information, the mo...