ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,348, issued on June 30, was assigned to Chongqing Changan Automobile Co Ltd (Chongqing, China).

"Clustering method and system for vehicle line 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: "Described herein is a method including S1: determining to-be-clustered data of different vehicle lines; S2: determining a mean Z value list and a centroid coordinate list of the vehicle line; S3: randomly obtaining a sample from the to-be-clustered data list of the vehicle line, and determining an E neighborhood sample list of a current sample; S4: computing a difference between...