ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,488, issued on June 9, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Client device orientation estimation" was invented by Benny Vejlgaard (Aalborg, Denmark), Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark), Ryan Keating (Naperville, Ill.) and Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example embodiment, a client device is configured to receive a first positioning reference signal; identify an orientation of a polarisation of the first positioning reference signal based on the received first positioning reference signal; estimate an orientation of the client device based on at least the identifi...