ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,221, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid positioning based on frequency dependent propagation effects" was invented by Pete Allen Boyer (Chocowinity, N.C.) and Joel Morrin (North Reading, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a server device may obtain a channel frequency of a channel of a transmission-reception point (TRP), a positioning procedure for a user device being performed based on one or more positioning reference signals from the TRP over the channel. The server device may determine a first frequency-scaled filtering distance ...