ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,227, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for searching for point of information" was invented by Wenjie Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Letian Feng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for searching for a point of information (POI). According to the method, a client performs, based on a first search text entered by a user and first user data stored in the client, address extension on the first search text, to obtain a second search text that includes the first search text and includes first address information obtained based on the first user...