ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,369, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling of measurement prioritization criteria in user equipment based radio frequency fingerprinting positioning" was invented by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for UE-based wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may acquire, from a first set of transmission/reception entities (TREs), a first set of measurements of signals. The UE may select, from the first set of TREs, a second set of TREs, based on criteria for selec...