US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Vertical positioning error reduction useful to systems such as IIoT" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,954, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Vertical positioning error reduction useful to systems such as IIoT" was invented by Abdurrahman Fouda (Evanston, Ill.), Ryan Keating (Chicago) and Hyun-su Cha (Oak Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device determines localization constraint(s) for an expected vertical range over which a UE may be positioned. The network device estimates vertical position of the UE. The network device compares the estimated vertical position with the localization constraint(s). The network device performs different actions depending on whether the estima...