ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,938, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment (UE) implementation to reduce positioning acquisition effort" was invented by Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Fnu Siddhant (Bangalore, India) and Pulkit Rajgadiya (Hyderabad, India).

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) receives positioning assistance data from a location server, the positioning assistance data including at least a first expected measu...