ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,981, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Measurement gaps for positioning measurements outside bandwidth part" was invented by Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity, such as the base station, user equipment (UE) or location server may determine that the UE should be configured with a measurement gap for intra-frequency positioning measurements outside the downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) of the UE. The determination may be based several factors...