ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,422, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Positioning method, device and system for receiving device, storage medium, and electronic device" was invented by Jianwu Dou (Shenzhen, China), Min Fang (Shenzhen, China), Yijian Chen (Shenzhen, China), Nan Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Lin Peng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning method includes: transmitting, by a transmitting device, a pilot signal to an electromagnetic reflecting surface; transmitting, by the transmitting device, control information to an electromagnetic reflecting surface control unit, where the control information inclu...