ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,122, issued on July 14, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Method and apparatus for acquiring angle of departure (AOD) of terminal, and communication device" was invented by Xiaowei Jiang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining an angle of departure (AOD) of a terminal, comprising: angle measuring signals are sent to a receiving terminal at a plurality of sending positions; corresponding phase information of the angle measuring signals, sent by the receiving terminal, of the plurality of sending positions is received; and the AOD of the sending terminal is obtained according to ...