US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 17 for "Positioning and orientation method, apparatus, and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,194, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Positioning and orientation method, apparatus, and device" was invented by Dongyang Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jinghui Xu (Shenzhen, China), Shihao Tang (Wuhan, China) and Zhiwu Chang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes the following steps: obtaining a first status of an object, where the first status includes a first position and a first pose; obtaining a second status of the object through inertial navigation by using the first status as a start point, where the second status includes a second position and a second ...