ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,262, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Navigation path planning method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Jizhou Huang (Beijing), Kejiao Li (Beijing), Bo Zhou (Beijing), Fan Wang (Beijing), Jingzhou He (Beijing) and Haifeng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation path planning method includes planning at least two available navigation paths for each target user of at least two target users in a target region by using a path planning algorithm; and determining a global passing feature of the target region and selecting, according ...