ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,853, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Inter-reference signal resource usage for carrier phase measurements" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, India), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Fnu Siddhant (Bangalore, India) and Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media to determine a location of a device using carrier phase positioning. A process includes transmitting, at the device to a network entity, a phase measurement capability of a device (e.g., a u...