US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "System and methods for supporting uplink and downlink positioning procedures in a wireless network" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,318, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"System and methods for supporting uplink and downlink positioning procedures in a wireless network" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany), Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.), Naga Bhushan (San Diego) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position of a user equipment (UE) may be determined using downlink based solutions (e.g. OTDOA), uplink based solutions (e.g. UTDOA), or combined downlink and uplink based solutions (e.g. RTT). The serving gNBs may request neighboring gNBs...