ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,638, issued on June 9, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Determining timing offset for improved positioning accuracy" was invented by Ryan Keating (Chicago), Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark) and Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method comprising selecting a reference point associated with a position of a terminal device (302), determining a timing offset associated with one or more first antenna panels (304), wherein the timing offset is determined based at least partly on the reference point, and applying the timing offset t...