ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,718, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Collision handling for positioning reference signals" was invented by Florent Munier (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden), Siva Muruganathan (Stittsville, Canada) and Ritesh Shreevastav (Upplands Vasby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating and configuring priority indication parameters associated with positioning measurements and calculations are provided herein. A priority indicator can be signaled to a wireless device and used for determining a priority associated with a positioning reference signal and an overlappi...