ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,799, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Allocation configuration for transmitting positioning data" was invented by Anders Berggren (Lund, Sweden), Basuki Priyanto (Lund, Sweden), Johan Hill (Lund, Sweden) and Shin Horng Wong (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a method is provided of operating a wireless communication device (UE) to provide positioning data for determining a position estimate of the UE, the UE being connected to a communications network via a radio link, the method comprising: receiving, from an access node, AN, of the communications network...