ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,088, issued on June 30, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Terminal positioning method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium" was invented by Xiandong Dong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Terminal positioning methods and communication devices are provided. In one terminal positioning method, a core network element sends a first message to be used by a terminal to perform terminal positioning, where the first message includes auxiliary positioning information and location request information, the auxiliary positioning information is used by the terminal to perform positioning ...