ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,869, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Handling of punctured positioning reference signals" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Fnu Siddhant (Bangalore, India) and Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) measures, during a measurement period that spans multiple measurement opportunities, multiple positioning reference signal (PRS) instances, each PRS instance occupying a different measure...