US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 8 for "Establishing communication links to assist headless devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,807, issued on April 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Establishing communication links to assist headless devices" was invented by QingYun Wei (San Jose, Calif.), Zhao Lou (Redwood City, Calif.), Shao-Cheng Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Avinash Joshi (San Jose, Calif.) and Xi Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for establishing connections between user devices and headless devices attempting to connect to networks. A headless device may attempt to connect to an access point that requires interaction with a captive portal webpage for access to a network. However, the headless device my...