US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 7 for "Broadcasting positioning assistance data for aerial user equipment" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,857, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Broadcasting positioning assistance data for aerial user equipment" was invented by Chiranjib Saha (Lakeside, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Umesh Phuyal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Positioning assistance data is broadcast by Transmission Reception Points (TRPs) that includes information that is specific for aerial user equipment (UEs) and information that is for terrestrial UEs. The positioning assistance data may be included in positioning System ...