ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,639, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for positioning" was invented by Yuhan Zhou (San Diego), Philippe Jean Marc Michel Sartori (Naperville, Ill.) and Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for positioning. In some embodiments, the method includes transmitting, by a first User Equipment (UE): a first Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) transmission, and, immediately preceding the first PRS transmission, a duplicate of a symbol of the first PRS transmission, the duplicate and the first PRS t...