ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,197, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Configuration details for autonomous gaps for positioning" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Carlos Cabrera Mercader (Cardiff, Calif.) and Changhwan Park (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) obtains one or more positioning measurements of one or more positioning reference signal (PRS) resources during one or more autonomous gaps scheduled within an autonomous gap window, the autonomous gap window, the one or more autonomous gaps, or both defined by one ...