ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,483, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Device identification method and related apparatus" was invented by Bo Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Ping Huang (Dongguan, China), Kai Zhu (Dongguan, China), Shusheng Liu (Shenzhen, China), Haiyan Wang (Wuhan, China) and Bin Zhou (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a device identification method and a related apparatus, to reduce costs of identifying whether a device that accesses a network is an AP device. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: when a type of the device that acc...