ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,094, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Point of interest-based information recommendation method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Meng Lv (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point of interest (POI)-based information recommendation method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining an encircling region encircling a POI in an electronic map; using an original boundary of the encircling region as an inner boundary and performing expansion processing on the inner boundary, ...