ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,864, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Positioning in a wireless communication network" was invented by Basuki Priyanto (Lund, Sweden), Fredrik Rusek (Eslov, Sweden) and Erik Bengtsson (Eslov, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a network node in a wireless communication network comprises determining whether a positioning process for positioning of a first communication device operated in the wireless communication network fulfils at least one predefined criterion; and, upon determining that the positioning process fulfils the at least one predefined criterion: triggering at least ...