US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Beam proximity PRS prioritization" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,416, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam proximity PRS prioritization" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing PRS resources includes: receiving, at a UE, assistance data including a schedule of a plurality of PRS resources having a plurality of beam directions, each of the plurality of PRS resources corresponding to a respective source location; determining a processing priority of the plurality of PRS resources based on a proximity of each of the plurality of be...