ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,683, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Regional positioning assistance data" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Lorenzo Ferrari (Castro Valley, Calif.), Yih-Hao Lin (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Rajat Prakash (San Diego) and Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal measuring method includes: receiving, at a user equipment, first positioning assistance data having a first area of applicability and a f...