ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,364, issued on April 14, was assigned to Quectel Wireless Solutions Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Transmitting reference signal for positioning" was invented by Zheng Zhao (Shanghai), Ling Lyu (Shanghai) and Zhongzhi Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a wireless communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a positioning device in a core network, first information associated with DRX; and determining, by the positioning device, a transmission time of a first signal based on the first information, where the first signal is a reference signal for positioning, and the transmissio...