US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 7 for "Network assisted positioning without service request procedure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,372, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network assisted positioning without service request procedure" was invented by Ravi Agarwal (San Diego) and Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining the location of user equipment (UE) are provided. An example of a method for providing positioning information to a network server includes receiving a paging message requesting positioning information for a user equipment (UE) from the network server, transmitting an over-the-air paging message for the UE, receiving a response message from the UE, determining the posi...