ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,028, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Positioning model optimization method, positioning method, positioning device, and storage medium" was invented by Linjie Luo (Los Angeles), Jing Liu (Los Angeles), Zhili Chen (Los Angeles), Guohui Wang (Los Angeles), Xiao Yang (Los Angeles), Jianchao Yang (Los Angeles) and Xiaochen Lian (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning model optimization method, an image-based positioning method and positioning device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The positioning model optimization method includes: inputting a positioning model for a...