ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,542, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Graphical positioning reference unit" was invented by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego), Rajat Prakash (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning reference assistance entity (PRAE) for providing positioning data to a network entity of a communication network having at least one transmission/reception point (TRP), the PRAE comprising: at least one sensor; at least one transceiver; at least one memory; and at least one processor, in signal communication with the at least one transcei...