ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,173, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for measurement reporting based on multipath characteristics of positioning reference signal resources" 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: "A network node supports position measurement determination for a user equipment (UE) by prioritizing positioning reference signal (PRS) resource measurements to be included in a location information report based on multipath characteristics of the PRS resources. The network node, for exam...