ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,333, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HANGZHOU ALICLOUD FEITIAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Trajectory query method and apparatus" was invented by Fang Wang (Hangzhou, China), Jiong Xie (Beijing) and Ailin Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present application are a trajectory query method and apparatus. The trajectory query method comprises: acquiring a trajectory query request, which comprises query information of a plurality of types; according to query information of a service type in the query information of the plurality of types, determining a query range of metadata...