ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,917, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Selecting between ray tracing and non-ray tracing channel models for positioning" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego) and Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Marcos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, an apparatus determines, based on one or more criteria, to use a non-ray tracing channel model, instead of a ray-tracing-based channel model, to model a wireless channel profile between a user equipment (UE) and one or more network nodes, and performs one or more positioning operations associated wit...