ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,098, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Non-stationary time-domain positioning with frequency hopping" was invented by Aki Hekkala (Oulu, Finland), Hyun-Su Cha (Chicago) and Dileep Kumar (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine Doppler shift information per transmission reception point per frequency hopping block; combine the frequency hopping blocks associated with positioning reference signals receive...