ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,877, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Converting wireless communications system-based positioning to positional descriptions with respect to descriptional layouts of assets" was invented by Abhishek Prasad (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ramji Srinivasan (Cambridge, Great Britain), Murray Jarvis (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nicolas Graube (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices that support converting position information from a device to positional descriptions with respect to descriptional layouts of assets at a location. In a first as...