ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,268, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for verifying personal identification number pin code" was invented by Yuanfeng Li (Shenzhen, China), Fengguang Qiu (Shanghai), Weilin Gong (Shenzhen, China), Zeping Xu (Shanghai), Xiaotao Yan (Shanghai), Pingping Gu (Shenzhen, China), Yang Yu (Wuhan, China) and Yingfeng Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method and an apparatus for verifying a personal identification number PIN code. When a first SIM card is inserted into a powered-on terminal device or the terminal device into wh...