ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,421, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Phase noise compensation during positioning reference signal (PRS) processing and opportunistic use for other channels" 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: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a receiver device receives a positioning reference signal (PRS) resource comprising a plurality of resource elements of at least one physical resource block in at least one slot, the plurality of resource elements spanning a plu...