ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,977, issued on June 23, was assigned to Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Map update method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Zheng Zhou (Beijing), Youlei Chen (Shenzhen, China), Yong Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Tao Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receiving a map update indication message from a map server; sending a first map update query request message to an OTA upgrade master node apparatus in a vehicle based on the map update indication message; receiving a first map update query feedback message that is fed back by the OTA upgrade master node apparatus based on the first map update qu...