ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,108, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Downlink control information (DCI)-based triggered positioning reference signals (PRS)" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Wanshi Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a serving transmission-reception point (TRP), downlink control information (DCI) triggering the UE to measure positioning reference signals (PRS), wherein a code point in the DCI is associated with one or more PRS resources, one or more PRS ...