ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,981, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Device positioning" was invented by Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark) and Diomidis Michalopoulos (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for apparatus positioning are provided. Solution includes receiving (300) by an apparatus from a network element a signal having multipath propagated signal components and obtaining time domain samples of the multipath propagated signal components, mapping (302) the time domain samples to one or more frequency offset-delay pairs to obtain frequency offsets and delays of the received multipath prop...