ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,996, issued on March 24, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Location determination method and apparatus, and communication device" was invented by Lei Yu (Beijing), Wei Hong (Beijing) and Yang Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a location, includes: determining location information of a User Equipment (UE) based on distances between the UE and one or more Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) service satellites of the UE at at least three different moments and location information of the one or more NTN service satellites of the UE at the at least three different moments, w...