ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,568, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Position uncertainty management during a lack of beacon signal reception" was invented by Mukesh Kumar (Bangalore, India), Chandrasekhar Jayaram (Bangalore, India), Srinivas Gangji (Bangalore, India) and Santoshkumar Zalake (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user equipment (UE) may receive a first set of beacon signals from a set of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) devices. The first UE may restrict growth of a position uncertainty (PUNC) value associated with the first UE based on a maximum vehicle speed and based on a lack of a rece...