US Patent Issued to Apple on March 31 for "Location estimation for reduced capacity devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,297, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Location estimation for 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 report, to a network one or more capabilities associated with a positioning procedure for location estimation. The UE may receive, from the n...