ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,007, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Positioning method and related apparatus" was invented by Guosheng Huang (Shanghai), Yongxiang Liu (Shanghai) and Xiang Shi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Positioning method and apparatus provide two services: a first, common positioning service and a second, high-precision positioning service to an upper-layer application through permission control and an independent reporting channel design. For a common application, a positioning result can be reported with a first, common precision through a common reporting channel. For a high-preci...