ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,553, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Access management method, authenticator, and authentication server" was invented by Bin He (Dongguan, China), Cairen Weng (Nanjing, China), Yibin Xu (Nanjing, China) and Sisheng Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an access management method, an authenticator, and an authentication server, applied to a scenario in which a terminal device accesses a network. After completing authentication, a terminal device sends a first packet to an authenticator, where the first packet carries a first IPV6 address of...