ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,280, issued on July 1, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and devices to reduce ALOS and NLOS impact on positioning" was invented by Guozeng Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Huahua Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods and apparatuses for enhancing localization of wireless communication devices can include a wireless communication node transmitting, and a wireless communication device receiving, a plurality of reference signals (RSs), for measurement. Each RS can be communicated along a respective transmission link. The wirele...