ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,444, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning reference signal design for phase compensation in bandwidth stitching" was invented by Jingchao Bao (San Diego), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Tao Luo (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.).

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 first plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) resources scheduled within a PRS bandwidth on a plurality of time intervals, the first plurality of PRS resources staggered in frequency across t...