US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on March 3 for "Time of arrival method for UE positioning in distributed RAN system architecture" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,457, issued on March 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Time of arrival method for UE positioning in distributed RAN system architecture" was invented by Fabian Wiacek (Warsaw, Poland) and Maciej Januszewski (Pila, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide a method to determine a reference signal transmission delay by a base station for a distributed RAN or cloud system architecture. The method uses an over the air transmission time and compensates for a possible reference clock discrepancy. Further, a method for TOA-based propagation delay measurement is provided, where consecutive re...