US Patent Issued to TP-LINK on June 3 for "Method for positioning and positioning device and access point performing the method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,945, issued on June 3, was assigned to TP-LINK CORPORATION PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method for positioning and positioning device and access point performing the method" was invented by Haojie Zhang (Chengdu, China), Jiaxin Chen (Chengdu, China) and Kan Wu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method for positioning performed by a positioning device, including: waking up the positioning device; obtaining Wi-Fi configuration information of an access point (AP); associating the positioning device with the AP based on the Wi-Fi configuration information; initiating positioning function to determine a lo...