ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,315, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Non-uniform-integer positioning and/or sensing behavior" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Diana Maamari (San Diego) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for at least one of positioning or sensing, includes: operating a UE in a non-uniform integer DRX mode having non-uniform integer DRX cycles; and performing, at the UE, at least one of a positioning operation or a sensing operation, corresponding to a reference signal, based on the UE operating in the non-uniform integer DRX mode."

The pate...