ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,910, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Support of low power high accuracy positioning (LPHAP)" was invented by Yi Guo (Shanghai), Ansab Ali (Beaverton, Ore.), Sudeep Palat (Cheltenham, Great Britain) and Youn Hyoung Heo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein provide techniques for low power, high accuracy positioning (LPHAP) in a wireless cellular network. For example, the techniques may be used for a user equipment (UE) in RRC_INACTIVE and/or RRC_IDLE mode. In some embodiments, the UE may notify the network of a LPHAP requirement and/or capability. This may en...