ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,361, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for determining orientation information and electronic device" was invented by Qi Wang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoxian Li (Shenzhen, China) and Zhenguo Du (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method for determining orientation information and an electronic device. In the method, a first electronic device may determine, based on a received second sequence, whether a device sending a first sequence associated with the second sequence is a second electronic device. If the device sending the first sequence is t...