ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,929, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatuses for measurement period formulation for positioning" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a request location information message from the network entity, the request location information message including one or more start measurement time parameters indicating a start time of a measurement period during which the UE is expected to per...