ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,219, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Navigation processing method and apparatus, service side device, intelligent terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Jian Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a navigation processing method and apparatus, a server, and an intelligent terminal. The method includes obtaining drawn route information, the drawn route information comprising N initial location points confirmed according to an electronic map, the N initial location points being determined according to a trajectory drawn based on a sliding ...