ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,933, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Cell positioning method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaolong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell positioning method includes determining that the terminal does not support a current positioning mode, and sending request information to a radio access network device. The request information is used for requesting a core network device to perform positioning mode switch for the terminal."

The patent was filed on April 19, 2021, under Application No. 18/556,108.

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