ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,823, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-port positioning reference signal (PRS) for downlink angle-of-departure (AOD) estimation" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mohammad Tarek Fahim (San Diego) and Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a set of antenna parameters for a plurality of antenna ports of a transmission-reception point (TRP), obtains positioning measurements of a plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) res...