ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,407, issued on June 10, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Road network extraction method, device, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaoqing Ye (Beijing), Deguo Xia (Beijing), Jizhou Huang (Beijing) and Haifeng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a road network extraction method, a device, and a storage medium, which relate to the technical field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, to the fields of image processing, computer vision, and the like and are specifically applicable to scenarios such as intelligent transportation and a smart city. A specific impl...