US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on June 16 for "Positioning" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,101, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Positioning" was invented by Mikko Saily (Espoo, Finland), Risto Ilari Wichman (Helsinki), Mehmet Cagri Ilter (Espoo, Finland) and Alexis Dowhuszko (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for position estimation are disclosed. The apparatus receives configuration information for a first Reference Signal (RS), and a second RS. The configuration information includes information indicative of a first and second time-frequency resource allocated to the first and second RS respectively. The allocation the resources is based on a...