ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,678, issued on July 28, was assigned to UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and device for determining positions of navigation target points and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Jiahao Ji (Shenzhen, China), Simin Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Jichao Jiao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining positions of navigation target points includes: acquiring an initial map, wherein the initial map represents a plan view corresponding to an explored area; performing contour extraction processing on the explored area to obtain a first contour map corresponding to the explored area...