ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,943, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Position estimation procedures involving base station and reference device" was invented by Jing Dai (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a reference device (e.g., gNB or BS) and a BS obtain a configuration of a TDOA procedure including respective PRSs to be transmitted by the reference device and the BS. In an aspect, the reference device and the BS each mute their own transmission while the other de...