US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Activation or deactivation of multiple downlink (DL) or uplink (UL) positioning reference signals (PRS) with a single MAC-CE command" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,717, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Activation or deactivation of multiple downlink (DL) or uplink (UL) positioning reference signals (PRS) with a single MAC-CE command" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) receives configurations for multiple downlink (DL) positioning reference signals (PRS), multiple uplink (UL) PRS, or a combination thereof. A single Medium Access Control-Control Element (MAC-CE) block from a serving base station is provided that activates...