US Patent Issued to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE on Nov. 3 for "Location method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,104, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Location method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaolong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes: receiving an instruction for activating or deactivating an uplink positioning reference signal sent by a location management function (LMF); and sending an activation command or a deactivation command to a terminal in a radio resource control (RRC) non-connected state based on the instruction for activating or deactivating the uplink positioning reference signal."

The patent was filed on July 20, 2021, under Application No. 18...