US Patent Issued to DISH Wireless on Aug. 4 for "Geolocation by measuring roundtrip time within RU" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,177, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Geolocation by measuring roundtrip time within RU" was invented by Khalid W. Al-Mufti (Sterling, Va.) and Mehdi Alasti (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for estimating Round Trip Time (RTT) such as used for estimating a location of mobile User Equipment (UE) devices, particularly adapted for Open Radio Access Networks (O-RANs) that disaggregate basestation functions into a Radio Unit (RU) and a Distributed Unit (DU) or Central Unit (CU). A Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) is transmitted by the RU according to schedule determined by th...