US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Positioning reference signal (PRS) securitization in user equipment (UE) positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,779, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning reference signal (PRS) securitization in user equipment (UE) positioning" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Weimin Duan (San Diego), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego), Aziz Gholmieh (Del Mar, Calif.) and Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reference signals used in location estimation of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless data network can be secured against a man-in-the-middle attack by a transmitting device withholding the conveyance of transmission parameters for decoding portions of a reference signal until ...