ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,726, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Low-power-consumption positioning method and related apparatus" was invented by Guosheng Huang (Shanghai), Zhenhua Chen (Shanghai), Chunzi Liu (Dongguan, China), Yongxiang Liu (Shanghai) and Yongfeng Guo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-power-consumption positioning method includes an electronic device sending first setting information to a server, where the first setting information is used to indicate the server to broadcast positioning assistance data to the electronic device at a first time interval (for example, 1 second). The...