US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 28 for "Positioning and network energy savings" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,569, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning and network energy savings" was invented by Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a network node transmits, to a network entity, at least one configuration indicating one or more time occasions during which the network node will refrain from transmission of downlink transmissions, reception of uplink transmissions, or both, and refrains from transmission of downlink positioning reference signals (DL-PRS), reception of uplink ...