ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,871, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ASSIONE IP HOLDINGS LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Password change via dynamic power reset pattern" was invented by Xing Peng (Shenzhen, China), Zhineng Cui (San Ramon, Calif.), Jilu Sun (Shenzhen, China), Yujie Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Wenjun Ji (Shenzhen, China) and Tyan-Shu Jou (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During operation, an electronic device may receive, associated with a computer, a packet or a frame that includes a dynamic power reset pattern, where the dynamic power reset pattern specifies temporal pattern of power resets. Then, the electronic device may detect multiple powe...