US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on May 5 for "Network assisted position measurements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,789, issued on May 5, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Network assisted position measurements" was invented by Mohammad Alawieh (Erlangen, Germany), Ferdinand Kemeth (Erlangen, Germany) and Norbert Franke (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the position of a target device within a communication network is disclosed. A corresponding target device including a receiving unit and a radio frequency measurement unit, a base station or a location server including a selector and a transmitter, and to a reference device with configurable proper...