ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,954, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for predicting success rate of lane changing by vehicle, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Ning Xiao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting a success rate of lane changing by a vehicle, including obtaining lane-group data of the plurality of lane groups, determining feature sets respectively corresponding to a plurality of lane lines of the traveling road, removing a feature subset in the plurality of feature subsets that meets a first preset condition from a feature...