ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,423, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Positioning method and related apparatus" was invented by Zhenyu Tao (Shanghai), Runze Zhou (Shanghai), Bin Xu (Shanghai) and Jinping Hao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method, applied to a mobility management network element, includes when learning that a terminal device needs to be handed over from a first access network device to a second access network device, sending a first message to a location management network element, where the first message indicates to suspend positioning measurement on the terminal device, and...