ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,932, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Vertical position estimation using wireless network information" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for wireless communications. A process can include determining, based on an estimated vertical position of a user equipment (UE) and a configured average floor height value, a floor level estimate corresponding to the UE. A Downlink Received Signal Strength Indicator (DL-RSSI) value associated with a respective beacon frame received by the UE from each access point (AP) of a plurality of APs can ...