ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,909, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Batch positioning reporting" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reporting positioning measurement reporting capability includes: establishing a positioning session between a telecommunication device and a network entity; and transmitting, from the telecommunication device to the network entity, a capability report indicating a measurement reporting capaci...