ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,335, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods, and computer programs related to positioning reference signals" was invented by Ryan Keating (Chicago) and Tao Tao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method comprising: receiving priority information indicative of a priority state of at least one positioning reference signal, receiving time window information configuring a time window that is outside of a measurement gap; and based on the priority information and the time window information, receiving one or more positioning reference signals during the time...