ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,093, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for positioning in RRC_IDLE or RRC_INACTIVE state" was invented by Hongbo Si (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for positioning in RRC_IDLE or RRC_INACTIVE states. A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes determining a first set of configurations for positioning and determining a second set of configurations for positioning. The first and second sets of configurations include configurations for a downlink (DL) positioning reference signal (PRS) based...