ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,208, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Password resetting method and apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Xiaodong Chen (Beijing), Zhiren Xu (Beijing) and Xiaoshuang Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A password resetting method includes a user entering first authentication content based on prompts of a first electronic device, and when the first authentication content on the first electronic device matches second authentication content on an associated second electronic device, the first electronic device may allow and prompt the user to reset a lock screen pass...