US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 11 for "Methods and apparatus for enhanced WiFi positioning using civic location for 4G and 5G" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,905, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for enhanced WiFi positioning using civic location for 4G and 5G" was invented by Avinash Shrivastava (Telangana State, India), Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.) and Mukul Sharma (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During positioning of a user equipment (UE), for example, during an emergency call, a civic location of the UE may be determined. For example, during a location session in a wireless network, a UE may detect a WiFi access point (AP) and obtain the civic location of the WiFi AP from the AP. The UE may provide the ci...