ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,053, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Virtual positioning reference unit for positioning" was invented by Jingchao Bao (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Yuxiang Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to perform positioning using virtual anchors and/or positioning reference units. In one aspect, a UE transmits a request for assistance data for performing UE-based positioning, where the request includes at least one of location information of the UE or a list of anchors observed by the UE. The UE receives the assistance data for the UE-based p...