US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 2 for "Scheduling and reporting for positioning using proximity devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,928, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Scheduling and reporting for positioning using proximity devices" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego), Murray Jarvis (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Chengjin Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may receive a first set of beacon messages from a first set of proximity devices. The wireless device may measure the first set of beacon messages. The wireless device may calculate a first position estimate of the wireless device based on the measured first set of beacon messages and a first set of locations associated with the first set of...