ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,391, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"System and method using 5G positioning with non-line of sight information from sensors utilizing transmission and reception points and sounding reference signals" was invented by Yaocheng Liang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Ho Man Cheng (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Haiming Zhang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yau Yau Yolanda Tsang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Kefei Ma (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Xinyi Liu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Yuxian Zhang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system using positioning with ...