ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,960, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Wi-Fi security authentication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Jun Tian (Shanghai), Yanjiang Yang (Singapore), Lianbing Tian (Shanghai) and Kai Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Wi-Fi security authentication method and a communication apparatus are disclosed. In the method, an access point (AP) receives a first access request from a supplicant, where the first access request carries a first parameter, and the first parameter is a parameter generated by the supplicant based on a generator of a cyclic group and a firs...