ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,219, issued on May 12, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Positioning processing method and apparatus, and device" was invented by Yuanyuan Wang (Dongguan, China), Huaming Wu (Dongguan, China), Ye Si (Dongguan, China) and Zixun Zhuang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a positioning processing method and apparatus, and a device, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method is applied to a terminal, and includes: transmitting first signaling to a target cell, where the first signaling is used for activating or deactivating transmission of...