ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,286, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Security authentication method and apparatus applied to Wi-Fi" was invented by Kai Liu (Shanghai) and Yanjie Gu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a security authentication method and apparatus applied to Wi-Fi, to help prevent a password from being shared among a plurality of devices, and implement management of a second device by a first device. In the method, an access point AP receives a first password input by the first device, where the first password is a password preset before delivery; and when check...