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Shanghai Weilan Power Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliate company of Chinese EV maker Nio, recently added a patent that features "dynamic facial recognition device and method, computer program" to its patent portfolio, information from data provider Tianyancha showed.

Xpeng has filed a patent application for a deformable roof designed to address the problem of cramped headroom in the back of a slide-back styled sedan, which is expected to be used in smaller compact sedans, according to information from China's National Patent Office.