ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,922, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reference location device capability configuration" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for configuring a user equipment (UE) to operate as a reference node. An example method of operating a user equipment as a reference node includes providing an indication of one or more reference node configuration options to a network entity, the one or more reference node configuration options comprising a registration configuration opti...