ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,234, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sensing assisted positioning" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego) and Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support sensing assisted positioning. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, from a first management function of a network, a first configuration that indicates a first parameter associated with a sensing operation operable to measure a characteristic of an object wit...