ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,253, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Positioning method and apparatus indicating that a target random access process is a random access process for positioning by using information, terminal and base station" was invented by Xiaotao Ren (Beijing), Bin Ren (Beijing) and Ren Da (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a positioning method and apparatus, a terminal and a base station, wherein the positioning method includes: indicating that a target random access process is a random access process for positioning by means of at least one of following ...