ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,585, issued on July 8, was assigned to SUZHOU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Suzhou, China).

"Park-and-ride route generation method, system, device, and medium" was invented by Yan Feng (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a park-and-ride route generation method, a system, a device, and a medium. The method comprises: expanding an expanded network node from a starting position to a destination position in the constructed topological relationship between a roadway network and a public transportation network; obtaining, by using a multivariate heuristic function, a minimum cost value fro...