US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 28 for "Cell selection for positioning based on crowdsourcing" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,233, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cell selection for positioning based on crowdsourcing" was invented by Naveen Kumar Aravapalli (Hyderabad, India), Arun Kumar Sharma Tandra (Hyderabad, India) and Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) decodes a first system information block (SIB) transmitted by a first cell to determine whether the first cell transmits a second SIB, decodes the second SIB based on a determination that the first cell transmits the second SIB, and reports, to a cro...