ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,317, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment indoor/outdoor indication" was invented by Hamed Pezeshki (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of indicating user equipment (UE) status, the method comprising: determining, at the UE based on at least one of sensor output information of the UE or one or more incoming wireless signals to the UE, an indoor/outdoor status of the UE; transmit, via at least one transmitter, an indoor/outdoor indication message to a network entity, wherein the indoor/outdoor indication message reports the ...