ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,765, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vehicle toll charging method, apparatus, device, system, storage medium and program product" was invented by Yixue Lei (Shenzhen, China) and Peng Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle toll charging method include acquiring reference information of a vehicle in a current toll lane, the reference information including one or more of a vehicle type or driving information, determining toll information of the vehicle according to the reference information, transmitting the toll information to a charging terminal, acquiring a firs...