ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,851, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Low complexity reception (Rx) beamforming for uplink (UL) positioning" was invented by Tao Tao (Shanghai), Daejung Yoon (Massy, France) and Ryan Keating (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, at a location management apparatus of a wireless communications system, information indicating an approximate location of a user device; determining network assistance signaling based on the obtained information of the approximate location of a user device; and sending the determined network assistance signaling to a first network app...