ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,316, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Autonomous preconfigured measurement gap activation for PRS measurement" was invented by Ping Yuan (Beijing), Jing He (Beijing), Jurgen Hofmann (Merching, Germany) and Tero Henttonen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of autonomous preconfigured measurement gap (Pre-MG) activation for a measurement of a positioning reference signal (PRS). In example embodiments, if it is determined that a measurement is to be performed for...