ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,973, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Map data updating method, apparatus and electronic device" was invented by Zhangwei Meng (Beijing), Shixi Dong (Beijing), Chaoyu Shi (Beijing) and Bingqiao Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a map data updating method, a map data updating apparatus and an electronic device, and relates to the field of map technology. The method includes: obtaining update information of first map data, and a mapsheet in the first map data that corresponds to the update information; performing, based on a spatial update ...