ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,257, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Cooperative positioning method and apparatus" was invented by Wei Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Xueru Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: a first terminal sends first information to a second terminal. The first information includes a source terminal identifier and a target terminal identifier, and the second terminal determines relative location information between the second terminal and the first terminal in response to the first information. The second terminal sends second information to a third terminal. The second i...