ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,700, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Triggering a positioning-related action based on a channel state information request field" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Ariz.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Mohammad Tarek Fahim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, an LMF component may determine to trigger positioning-related action(s) at a UE. The LMF component may request that a serving BS of the UE trigger the positioning-related action(s). The serving BS may transmit a DCI communication with a CSI r...