ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,828, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Route plotting method and apparatus, computer device, storage medium and program product" was invented by Tian Du (Shenzhen, China) and Hui Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route plotting method includes: displaying an electronic map; determining multiple position points in the electronic map, where longitude coordinates of the multiple position points fall within a first longitude coordinate range; converting a project longitude coordinate to a target longitude coordinate range in response to that the multiple position points ...