ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,714, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NORTHWEST INSTRUMENT INC. (Dover, N.J.).

"Trajectory processing method and apparatus" was invented by Xin Shi (Shanghai), David Xing (Dover, N.J.), Yang Zhou (Shanghai) and Mingyu Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for trajectory processing includes: displaying, on a graphical user interface, a plurality of trajectory diagrams of multiple spaces, wherein each space corresponds to at least one of the trajectory diagrams; determining a target space on the graphical user interface, wherein a perimeter of the target space being formed by boundaries of two or more spaces of the ...