ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,493, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reporting UE UL TX timing quality for UL or DL-UL based position methods for NR positioning" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein provide for a mobile device communicating a timing quality metric related to an uplink (UL) signal for UL and/or downlink-uplink (DL-UL) positioning techniques. The timing quality metric can be indicative of an accuracy of the transmission timing of one or more reference signals (e.g., in relation...