US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 20 for "Positioning reference signal configuration for backscatter-based positioning procedure" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,546, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning reference signal configuration for backscatter-based positioning procedure" was invented by Mohammad Tarek Fahim (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are devices and techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a radio frequency identification (RFID) device may receive a positioning reference signal that is transmitted over a set of radio resources of a wireless communic...