ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,680, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Navigation method and apparatus, device, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Jingbo Fan (Shenzhen, China), Qian Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Lingfang Pang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation method includes displaying a navigation interface, the navigation interface being configured for navigating a target vehicle; displaying, in the navigation interface, a navigation map and a virtual vehicle that moves in the navigation map as the target vehicle travels; and displaying, between a moment when the virtual vehi...