US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on April 15 for "Map data query method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,509, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Map data query method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Min Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map data query method is performed at a computer device, the method including: obtaining a current position of a vehicle; requesting map data matching the current position from a cloud database; caching the requested map data returned from the cloud database locally; constructing a real-time spatial index of the locally-cached map data according to road elements in the locally-cached map data; in res...