US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 18 for "Basis function based beam shape assistance for downlink angle of departure positioning" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,687, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Basis function based beam shape assistance for downlink angle of departure positioning" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a positioning entity receives a beam report from a network entity, the beam report including beam shape assistance information for one or more downlink transmit beams of a base station, the one or more downlink transmit beams corresponding to positioning...