Chinese tech giant Huawei registered two driving-related trademarks - MATEDRIVE and MATEAUTO on January 28, both classified as scientific instruments and transportation tools, according to data provider Qichacha.

This is Huawei's latest move in the automotive sector. On January 19, Huawei disclosed a patent related to autonomous driving, specifically related to a method for detectingdrivable areas on roads.

In August last year, Huawei successfully held the Huawei Autonomous Driving Network Technology Summit in Suzhou, discussing with professors from several Chinese universities the prospects, standard definitions and cutting-edge technologies of the autonomous driving network industry, and announcing the establishment of the Huawei Digital Communication Autonomous Driving Network Joint Laboratory.

In July last year, Huawei disclosed an autonomous driving method and an autonomous driving system for determining an autonomous driving strategy based on the user's historical driving behavior data as well as current environmental data to enable safe driving.

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, and it has reiterated that it does not build whole cars, but focuses on ICT technologies to help car companies build good cars and become a provider of incremental components for intelligently networked vehicles.

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