ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,939, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Positioning method, user equipment and network device" was invented by Chenxi Bao (Beijing), Yunjing Hou (Beijing), Qiang Deng (Beijing) and Yong Jiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method, a user equipment and a network device provided by the present disclosure realize positioning of the user equipment by combining proximity based services, where the network device receives a location request for a target UE; if it is determined that the target UE supports a proximity assisted positioning function and the network...