ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,810, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low latency MGP request handling for positioning" was invented by Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Athens, Greece), Sven Fischer (Nuremberg, Germany), Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Carlos Cabrera Mercader (Cardiff, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage medium for positioning are provided. An example method at a base station may include transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a location request requesting location information from the UE....