ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,284, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Map navigation method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Honglong Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map navigation method includes displaying a navigation interface, displaying a first-type navigation map on the navigation interface in response to a target road segment of a road being in a preset road condition and an object being located in a road range other than the target road segment, and displaying a second-type navigation map on the navigation interface in response to the target road se...