ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,460, issued on March 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Positioning" was invented by Yan Meng (Shanghai), Jianguo Liu (Shanghai), Tao Tao (Shanghai), Diomidis Michalopoulos (Munich) and Ryan Keating (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to positioning. A first device performs positioning measurements of a first set of reference signals in a first frequency range. If the first device determines that quality of service requirements for positioning the first device are satisfied, the first device transmits a first measurement report to a second device. The ...