ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,668, issued on July 22, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Positioning methods and cloud device" was invented by Xi Chen (Beijing), Guangdi Shan (Beijing), Wei Li (Beijing), Fangsheng Jiang (Beijing) and Hailu Jia (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method includes: receiving detection data sent by a positioning device, in which the detection data includes first satellite data of multiple satellites; determining prediction noise of each satellite based on the first satellite data, and determining a weight of each satellite based on the prediction noise; and determining a pos...