ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,912, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Positioning with discontinuous reception" was invented by Muhammad Tayyab (Oulu, Finland) and Satya Krishna Joshi (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When discontinuous reception is used with positioning and reference signals for positioning are received in a plurality of frequency bins, it may be that a frequency bin is missed. That may decrease an accuracy of the positioning. Hence, an apparatus receiving the reference signals, when determining that one or more frequency bins are missed, may use, when one or more conditions are met, earlier v...