ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,436, issued on May 6, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method and apparatus for determining operation mode, device, and storage medium" was invented by Jian Yao (Dongguan, China) and Dajie Jiang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for determining an operation mode, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining first information, where the first information is at least one of position information and positioning error information of a target terminal; and determining at least one first operation mode based on the first informati...