US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Feb. 10 for "Measurement and signaling for enabling position determination in networks including non-terrestrial components" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,105, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Measurement and signaling for enabling position determination in networks including non-terrestrial components" was invented by Birendra Ghimire (Erlangen, Germany), Norbert Franke (Erlangen, Germany) and Alexander Hofmann (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining a position of a user device, UE, of a wireless communication network is described. The wireless communication network includes a radio access network, RAN, and a plurality of non-terrestrial network, NTN, components, li...