US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Positioning using traffic control" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,978, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning using traffic control" was invented by Han Zhang (Beiging, China), Ning Luo (Cupertino, Calif.), Yinghua Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Yuxiang Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bo Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gengsheng Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Min Wang (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method includes: obtaining traffic control information indicative of transmission of a traffic control indication granting permission for vehicle motion, or permission for pedestrian motion, or a combination thereof and determining, based on the traffic con...