ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,424, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for downlink and uplink carrier-phase reporting" was invented by Emad N. Farag (Flanders, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for an uplink carrier-phase reporting. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from N antennas of a base station, N downlink (DL) positioning reference signals (PRSs), respectively, and measuring carrier phase differences of the received DL PRSs corresponding to adjacent pairs of the N antennas. The DL PRSs are received in orthogonal resources and Nle...