ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,585, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributing receive chains for parallel processing of reference signals from multiple sources" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods, systems, and devices for processing a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) or other reference signal usable for determining a position of a User Equipment (UE). In some aspects, a UE is configured to report to a network entity information indicating a number of receive (Rx) chains us...