ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,470, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Relative positioning method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Hongping Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Huiming Sun (Shanghai) and Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first terminal obtains a plurality of first relative positions. Each of the plurality of first relative positions is determined based on a second relative position and a third relative position. The first relative position is an initial relative position between the first terminal and a second terminal, the second relative position is a relative position between the...