ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,830, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Device and method for uplink reference signal transmission configuration in positioning" was invented by Qimei Cui (Beijing), Wenlu Zhang (Beijing) and Haojin Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a network device in a wireless communication system, comprising: instructing a user equipment to send uplink reference signals to the network device using a first set of beams; measuring transmission quality metrics of the uplink reference signals sent in each beam direction of the first set of beams; and instructing the user equipment to send uplink refere...