ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,585, issued on March 25, was assigned to BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Systems and methods for visual positioning" was invented by Ling Bao (Beijing), Bin Xu (Beijing), Xiance Du (Beijing), Jun Zhang (Beijing), Xiaoqiang Teng (Beijing), Zhiwei Ruan (Beijing), Huanqing Zhou (Beijing), Pengfei Xu (Beijing), Ronghao Li (Beijing), Runbo Hu (Beijing) and Hua Chai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a visual positioning method, the method may include obtaining a positioning image collected by an imaging device; obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) ...