ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,138, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Jianqin Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle terminal determines a data format of detection information, where the detection information is associated with a map element. The vehicle terminal sends the detection information to a first network device based on the determined data format. The vehicle terminal receives map element change information sent by the first network device or a second network device, to update an electronic map. The first network dev...