ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,202, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Discontinuous communication configuration associated with a position estimation session or a sensing operation" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego) and Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a first wireless node, obtains a reference signal for positioning or sensing (RS-P-S) configuration that configures RS-P-S occasions, wherein the RS-P-S occasions comprises RS-P occasions associated with a position estimation session or radio frequency for sensing (RF-S) occasions associated w...