ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,362, issued on March 18, was assigned to GLORYVIEW TECH INC. (Guangzhou, China).

"Indoor positioning method and system, computer device and storage medium" was invented by Shanchi Lin (Guangzhou, China), Yang Liu (Guangzhou, China), Xiangguo Li (Guangzhou, China), Shuangan Ding (Guangzhou, China), Huangbo Cai (Guangzhou, China) and Guitao Hu (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indoor positioning method includes judging whether a positioning terminal enters a coverage range of a virtual beacon. If yes, judging whether a distance between the positioning terminal and the virtual beacon gradually decreases to obtain a ju...