ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,314, issued on July 1, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd..

"Vehicle scheduling method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Xiankuan Liu (Shenzhen, China), Weihua Liu (Shenzhen, China), Qiongying He (Shenzhen, China) and Meimei Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: repeatedly performing following steps according to a preset scheduling period: receiving travelling information acquired by a target vehicle; searching, according to a global path of the target vehicle, a topological map for a target directed edge matching the travelling information; determining a right-of-way node sequence of the target vehicle ...