ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,196, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Fallback procedures when the path loss or spatial transmit quasi-collocation (QCL) reference from neighboring cells is failing for sounding reference signals (SRS) for positioning" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a UE receives a positioning configuration, the positioning configuration including at least an identifier of a first downlink reference signal from a neighboring cell...