ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,011, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for presenting roading conditions, road condition processing, apparatuses, and computer device" was invented by Panpan Cui (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Feng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to a method for presenting roading conditions. The method includes presenting an initial navigation screen, and displaying a target navigation route on the initial navigation screen; and presenting a target navigation screen in response to a navigation trigger event, and displaying a gradual transitioning road surface...