ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,251, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China) and THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE (Adelaide, Australia).

"Positioning system based on an image capturing module within a receiver" was invented by Siu Wai Ho (South Australia, Australia), Sunil Kumar Atmaram Chomal (Singapore), Zhan Yu (Singapore) and Matthew Scott Britton (South Australia, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for determining a location of a receiver in an enclosed space whereby its location is obtained based on information associated with at least two transmitters that are provided within the enclosed pace. In p...