ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,228, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Location obtaining method and apparatus thereof" was invented by Chengchen Zhang (Shanghai) and Qianghua Zhu (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location obtaining method includes requesting, from a network, to obtain locations of a first terminal device and a second terminal device at a same time point, and receiving the locations that are fed back by the network and that are of the first terminal device and the second terminal device at the same time point. The locations of the first terminal device and the second terminal de...