ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,870, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Aggregation of positioning signal and supplemental signal" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Jing Lei (San Diego), Yongjun Kwak (San Diego), Yuchul Kim (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing method includes: receiving, at a UE, a PRS and a supplemental signal, the supplemental signal being a broadcast signal and spanning a first frequency range at least partially outside of a second frequency range spanned by t...