ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,822, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Positioning procedures for user equipments in inactive state" was invented by Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Guozeng Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Yu Liu (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, China), Hao Wu (Shenzhen, China), Huahua Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Yu Pan (Shenzhen, China) and Shujuan Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for performing positioning procedures. A wireless communication device may receive, from a wireless communication node, information to facilitate pos...