ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,372, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for controlling movement of moving body and related device" was invented by Hua Yan (Hangzhou, China), Yumin Wu (Hangzhou, China) and Guangguan Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling movement of a moving body includes: obtaining a first voxel set of an obstacle, where the first voxel set includes at least one first voxel that identifies the obstacle in space in which the moving body is located; determining a valid moving path based on a mapping relationship between a voxel and a moving path and the fi...