ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,014, issued on July 14, was assigned to Chongqing Changan Automobile Co Ltd (Chongqing, China).

"Clustering method and system for road object elements of crowdsourced map, and storage medium" was invented by Zuoqin Shi (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a clustering method and system for road object elements of a crowdsourced map, and a storage medium. Data of road objects are skillfully represented by centroids thereof according to an improved mean shift algorithm, and geometric relationships between different objects are selected according to different types of road objects as measurement conditions for ...