ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,109, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CHERY AUTOMOBILE Co. LTD. (Wuhu, China).

"Vehicle and device positioning method" was invented by Cui Xia (Wuhu, China), Aoting Wei (Wuhu, China), Fei Wang (Wuhu, China) and Chuansu Wang (Wuhu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a position of a device includes: providing position detection pins on Bluetooth slave modules, and when the Bluetooth slave modules are installed, connecting the position detection pins of the Bluetooth slave modules at different installation positions to different level signal pins such that the level situations of the position detection pins ...