ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,880, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Double differential timing procedures and indication of a required reference signal for positioning measurement set" 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: "An aspect is directed to signaling, to a target UE, a required reference signal for positioning (RS-P) measurement set and an optional RS-P measurement set (e.g., for a positioning session associated with a DDT procedure or a non-DDT procedure). In another aspe...