ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,476, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for reporting location information" was invented by Yunfei Qiao (Hangzhou, China) and Jun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a method and an apparatus for reporting location information. The method includes a terminal device determines that a trigger condition of a first procedure is satisfied. The first procedure is for determining a location area of the terminal device, and the trigger condition includes at least one of The terminal device switches the location area...