ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,501, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Indoor positioning method and device" was invented by Wei Wang (Singapore) and Zichen Xie (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indoor positioning method includes: receiving a first measurement parameter obtained by a first device by measuring a second device in a first coordinate system, where the first measurement parameter includes a first angle and a first distance, the first angle is an angle of the second device in the first coordinate system, and the first distance is a distance of the second device relative to an origin of coordina...