ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,623, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Obtaining a location of a reference user equipment for location determination of one or more other user equipments" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a location of a reference UE is obtained (e.g., iteratively). A first differential RTT measurement is determined based on RTTs between a target UE and each of first and second wireless nodes, and a second differential RTT measurement is determined based on RTTs between a reference UE and each of the fi...