ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,645, issued on June 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Validation of positioning models" was invented by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Marcos, Calif.), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego) and Rajat Prakash (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network entity, for example a location management function (LMF), may transmit a first configuration to validate a positioning model. A user equipment (UE) may receive the first configuration to validate the positioning model. The UE may receive a set of positioning signals. The UE may measure the set of positioning signals based on the first configuration. The UE may obtain...