ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,948, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Position estimate based on transmission beam properties" was invented by Basuki Priyanto (Lund, Sweden), Anders Berggren (Lund, Sweden), Jose Flordelis (Lund, Sweden), Yujie Zhang (Lund, Sweden) and Johan Hill (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide a method of operating an access node (AN), wherein the method comprises receiving, from a wireless communication device, UE, on a radio channel, a reference signal; determining a reception property of the reference signal; determining an identifier of the reference signal from the reference signal, wher...