ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,868, issued on May 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning reference signal selection for power savings" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for herein for down selecting positioning reference signals with a user equipment (UE). An example method for measuring and reporting positioning reference signals includes receiving positioning reference signal measurement and accuracy requirements, measuring one or more positioning reference signals based on the measurement and accur...