ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,275, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Virtual positioning signal measurements" was invented by Yuxiang Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.) and Min Wang (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for providing a virtual positioning signal measurement, includes: determining that an expected positioning signal measurement is absent from a plurality of actual positioning signal measurements made by a UE; and providing a virtual measurement value, for the expected positioning signal measurement, based on at least one actual positioning signal measurement that is of a same type a...