ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,522, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Wuhan, China).

"Intelligent ship navigation path generation method based on visual and spatial semantic enhancement for an aid to navigation" was invented by Hongchu Yu (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an intelligent ship navigation path generation method based on visual and spatial semantic enhancement for an aid to navigation, including: identifying the aid to navigation around a ship and determining a current position of the ship; obtaining a navigable area of the ship based on semantic information of the aid to navigation; removing po...