ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,762, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Satellite search method and apparatus" was invented by Guangyu Zhang (Shanghai) and Yongxiang Liu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite search method is applied to a mobile terminal. The satellite search method includes determining, based on location information of the mobile terminal, location information of an available satellite, and three-dimensional (3D) map information, whether a direct line of sight between the mobile terminal and the available satellite is blocked by an obstacle, and determining location information of a...