US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 16 for "Bandwidth part operation and downlink or uplink positioning reference signal scheme" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,716, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth part operation and downlink or uplink positioning reference signal scheme" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.) and Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a positioning reference signal configuration of a base station. The UE may determine, based on the positioning referenc...