ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,109, issued on May 12, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Positioning method and apparatus" was invented by Bin Ren (Beijing), Ren Da (Beijing), Xiaotao Ren (Beijing), Zheng Zhao (Beijing), Gang Li (Beijing), Hui Li (Beijing), Zhenyu Zhang (Beijing) and Rongyi Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a positioning method and apparatus, which are used for eliminating a clock skew between base stations and improving the UE positioning accuracy of an UL-TDOA/DL-TDOA positioning technical scheme. The method comprises: determining positioning reference signal configuration informat...