ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,740, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Map data collection method and apparatus, and system" was invented by Jianqin Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a map data collection method and apparatus, and a system, to report map data in a targeted manner. The method includes: receiving a first instruction from a network side device, where the first instruction instructs a map data reporting manner to a first vehicle, the first instruction includes confidence information, and the confidence information indicates confidence that m...