US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Reference signal configuration for location estimation of reduced capacity devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,059, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reference signal configuration 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 report, to a network (e.g., to a base station or an LMF) one or more capabilities associated with a positio...