ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,492, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for geolocating an item of user equipment, device, item of user equipment, base station, system and computer program corresponding thereto" was invented by Jean-Marc Kelif (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for geolocating an item of user equipment located at a given altitude, receiving a plurality of radio beams emitted in at least a first and a second propagation direction by at least one antenna of a first base station and by at least one antenna of a second base station, respectively, in at least a third and a fourth propag...