ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,417, issued on June 24, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).
"Positioning method and terminal" was invented by Ye Si (Dongguan, China), Peng Sun (Dongguan, China) and Wei Bao (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method includes: receiving configuration information; and determining, in idle state or inactive state based on the configuration information, whether to enter connected state at a preset moment to complete a positioning procedure."
The patent was filed on June 28, 2021, under Application No. 17/360,642.
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