ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,815, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Sending time determination method and device, and indoor goniometric method and device" was invented by Xinlin Yi (Beijing), Yong Zhang (Beijing), Ningzhi Zhu (Beijing), Runyu Shi (Beijing) and Kai Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sending time determination method includes: determining a transmission duration and a synchronization error of signal transmission between the device to be measured and a goniometric device; determining a receiving time slot for the goniometric device to receive ultrasonic goniometric signal sent by the...