US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Frequency hopped PRSs for location estimation of reduced capacity devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,683, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Frequency hopped PRSs for location estimation of reduced capacity devices" was invented by Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Wei Zeng (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego) and Weidong Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for positioning reference signals (PRSs) for reduced capacity devices, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond. A UE may be configured to receive, from a network (e.g., from a base station and/or an LMF), a first repetition of a frequency ...