ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,474, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Position estimation in a communication system" was invented by Sajad Rezaie (Aalborg, Denmark) and Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present subject matter relates to a method receiving reference signals from at least one node, the reference signals being received in multiple carrier frequencies; processing the reference signals for determining per carrier frequency a position of the apparatus; determining a weight per carrier frequency, the weight of a specific carrier frequency being indicative of relationships betwe...