ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,252, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Positioning method and communication apparatus in satellite network" was invented by Yu Wang (Hangzhou, China), Rongdao Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Yinggang Du (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method in a satellite network, a communication apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, a program, and a program product are provided. The method includes: a terminal device receives a first broadcast signal block of a first satellite; obtains a measurement value of the first broadcast signal block; obtains positioning assis...