ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,979, issued on July 29, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vehicle control method and related apparatus" was invented by Nan Liu (Shenzhen, China), Miao Yang (Beijing) and Mingchao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to vehicle control methods and apparatuses, applied to fields such as intelligent vehicles. In one example method, an authentication apparatus (for example, a road side apparatus, a vehicle management platform, or a special vehicle) is assigned control permission for a vehicle. When an unlocking requester has a requirement for openi...