US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 17 for "Architecture options for cooperative sensing and positioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,999, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Architecture options for cooperative sensing and positioning" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Rajat Prakash (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications network architecture options for cooperative sensing and positioning. A sensing management function (SnMF) may be deployed as a network entity within the core network that supports, manages, analyzes, etc., the sensing output(s) of nodes of a wireless network. The SnMF may obtain radio frequency (RF) signal metrics from wir...