ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,417, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Displacement positioning signaling and reporting" was invented by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Hirzallah (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network node may receive a first set of sounding reference signals (SRSs) and a second set of SRSs from a wireless device. The first network node may measure the first set of SRSs and the second set of SRSs. The first network node may calculate a set of displacement radio frequency fingerprint (RFFP) measurements based on the measured first set of SRSs and measure...