ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,158, issued on June 30.

"Transponder signaling for localization on higher bands" was invented by Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ran Berliner (Kfar aviv, Israel) and Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless networks may maintain up-to-date location information for the UE by periodically determining the location the UE using a low power transponding mechanism while the UE is in an inactive state. The UE may monitor a first beam to receive one or more transponder search signals during one or more transponder occasions, a...