ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,687, issued on June 9, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for positioning" was invented by Focai Peng (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Mengzhen Li (Shenzhen, China), Cong Wang (Shenzhen, China), Zhiqiang Han (Shenzhen, China) and Juan Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems and methods for carrier phase positioning. A wireless communication device may receive configuration information about a reference signal for positioning from a wireless communication node. The wireless communication device may measure the reference signal for positioning. The wir...