ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,549, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (Beijing) Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for perceiving road structure" was invented by Zongdai Liu (Beijing), Ji Wan (Beijing), Xiaoqing Ye (Beijing), Jun Wang (Beijing), Jingdong Wang (Beijing) and Liang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium and a program product for perceiving a road structure, and relates to the technical field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, to the technical field of deep learning...