ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,809, issued on April 14, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).
"Positioning method and apparatus" was invented by Xiandong Dong (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method in a 5G cellular network includes a UE receiving a radio resource control (RRC) release message, the RRC release message carrying positioning assistance information. The positioning assistance information is used to perform positioning measurement to obtain a positioning result when the UE is in an RRC non-connected state; and the RRC non-connected state includes an RRC idle state and an RRC inactive state."
The paten...