ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,932, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Positioning method and apparatus" was invented by Runze Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network element is disposed in the campus network, and a second network element is determined for each terminal device. The first network element stores a correspondence between each terminal device and a second network element corresponding to the terminal device. After receiving a positioning message reported by a first terminal device, the first network element may route, based on the pre-stored correspondence, the positioning message to...