ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,145, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Location assistance data for wideband positioning" was invented by Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Jingchao Bao (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Juan Montojo (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Frequency-dependent changes in beam shapes of transmitted RF signals can be provided to a receiving device. Beam shape information can include, for example, gain of a beam and a plurality of azimuth and elevation directions, boresight and width of a main lobe (and optionally side lobes) of the beam, information regarding a p...