ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,838, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to JINGDONG CITY (BEIJING) DIGITS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Spatial join query method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Rubin Wang (Beijing), Jie Bao (Beijing), Ruiyuan Li (Beijing), Huajun He (Beijing) and Chujing Tan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial join query method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The spatial join query method comprises: obtaining a first resilient distributed dataset of first spatial data and a second resilient distributed dataset of second spatial data; generating multi-tree spatial indexes ...