ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,111, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Time-drift error mitigation for round-trip-time positioning" was invented by Jing Dai (Beijing), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Weimin Duan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory media for improving user equipment (UE) positioning by reducing round-trip-time (RTT) measurement errors that may result from clock-drift between network nodes. In some aspects, RTT measurement error can be mitigated through modifications to resource signaling schedules at a UE and/or gNB, for example, based on ...