ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,752, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Traffic simulation method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Yong Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Haining Du (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic simulation method includes: performing mesoscopic traffic simulation on a target vehicle corresponding to a target trip matrix in a current time period based on starting mesoscopic simulated traffic condition data corresponding to the current time period and a simulation requirement to obtain target travel data of the target vehicle in the current time per...