ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,326, issued on May 20, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Positioning method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Kai Zhao (Beijing) and Guangjun Qiao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method includes acquiring configuration information from a ranging data frame structure. The configuration information includes a time offset. The time offsets of at least two different positioning devices differ from on another. The method includes determining a time domain position of a first time unit in the ranging data frame according to the time offset and sending a ranging messag...