US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 8 for "Soft collision between PRS and other channels in RRC inactive and idle modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,065, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Soft collision between PRS and other channels in RRC inactive and idle modes" was invented by Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to prioritize PRS and different DL channels in an RRC-inactive/idle state. In one aspect, a UE receives one or more PRSs and at least one DL channel in a measurement period and during an RRC-inactive state or an RRC-idle state, the one or more PRSs occupying a range of symbols that do not overlap...