ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,686, issued on July 22, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Road structure detection method and apparatus" was invented by Wei Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a road structure detection method and apparatus. The method includes: determining boundary information of a host lane and boundary information of an adjacent lane, and determining road structure information based on the boundary information of the host lane and the boundary information of the adjacent lane. The boundary information of the host lane is used to represent a location of a bou...