ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,931, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Varying reference signal for positioning configurations" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.) and Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a BS transmits, to a UE, a time-varying RS-P configuration (e.g., for DL-PRS or SRS-P, such as UL-SRS-P or SL-SRS-P) that comprises a first RS-P configuration associated with a first time period and a second RS-P configuration associated with a second time period. In another aspect, a BS transmits, to a UE, a varying SRS-P configuration that comp...