US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on April 22 for "Relative positioning assistance information" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,627, issued on April 22, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Relative positioning assistance information" was invented by Fredrik Gunnarsson (Linkoping, Sweden) and Ritesh Shreevastav (Upplands Vasby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods, performed by a network node, for providing positioning assistance data to one or more user equipment (UEs) in a wireless network. Such methods include determining relative location information for one or more transmission reception points (TRPs) in the wireless network based on absolute location information for an associated TRP in the wir...