ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,111, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cell-level discontinuous transmission (DTX) and positioning reference signal (PRS) transmissions" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a network device may operate according to a cell-level discontinuous transmission (cell DTX) cycle that comprises one or more active times and one or more inactive times. The network device may transmit positioning reference signal (PRS) at one or more sc...