ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,642, issued on June 9, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for carrier-phase positioning with multiple frequencies" was invented by Yuhan Zhou (San Diego) and Philippe Jean Marc Michel Sartori (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are provided in which a user equipment (UE) in a network measures a first carrier phase based on a first reference signal at a first frequency, and a second carrier phase based on a second reference signal at a second frequency that is different from the first frequency. The UE performs a measurement based on the first carrier phas...