US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Patterns for reference signals used for positioning in a wireless communications system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,498, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Patterns for reference signals used for positioning in a wireless communications system" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for determining a suitable pattern for transmitting reference signals used for positioning on allocated resources. In particular, the pattern may be used to assign the reference signals to...