ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,390, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for selection of bands to maximize measurements in a tuneless measurement gap" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.) and Fnu Siddhant (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for selecting measurement gap periods for positioning user equipment, UE, in 5G NR. A method for positioning a user equipment includes receiving (1302) positioning assistance data associated with one or more fre...