ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,889, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for updating associated information of guide point" was invented by Yang Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a method for updating associated information of a guide point performed by a computer device. The method includes: acquiring a first road sign corresponding to a target guide point; acquiring a first update time having a corresponding relationship with the first road sign from a road change time library under a condition that the first road sign is found in the preset road chang...