US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Aug. 12 for "Obtaining and providing positioning assistance data" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,076, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Obtaining and providing positioning assistance data" 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: "A method performed by a target device to obtain positioning assistance data from a location server is provided. The target device and the location server are operating in a wireless communications network. The target device transmits a request to the location server. The request is a request for positioning assistance data and provides first logical position i...