US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on July 21 for "Enabling positioning in unlicensed spectrum" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,003, issued on July 21, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Enabling positioning in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Aata El Hamss (Laval, Canada), Fumihiro Hasegawa (Westmount, Canada), Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Faris Alfarhan (Montreal), Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada), Tuong Duc Hoang (Montreal), Jaya Rao (Montreal) and Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz (Little Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein for enabling positioning, for example, in unlicensed spectrum. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may monitor for reference signals...