US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 13 for "User equipment positioning based on a non-terrestrial communication network" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,412, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment positioning based on a non-terrestrial communication network" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Yuxiang Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qiang Wu (San Diego), Mehmet Izzet Gurelli (San Diego), Jun Ma (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Lianghai Ji (San Diego), Karthik Anantha Swamy (La Jolla, Calif.) and Mohamad Sayed Hassan (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for supporting user equipment (UE) positioning in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). To allow calculating a position/location of a UE based on reference signal (RS)...