ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,196, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Road recognition method and apparatus" was invented by Ye Leng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road recognition method includes, when detecting a road recognition request, a first device that sends, by using a DMSDP service, a control command to an entity camera corresponding to a virtual camera HAL, where the control command is for controlling the entity camera to capture a current image. The first device receives, by using the DMSDP service, the current image returned by the entity camera in response to the control command ...