ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,000, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Identity authentication method and communications apparatus" was invented by Zhongding Lei (Singapore), Xin Kang (Singapore), Haiguang Wang (Singapore) and Bo Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an identity authentication method, including: A first network device receives first authentication indication information from a first terminal device, wherein the first request carries first authentication indication information and a unmanned aerial system (UAS) identifier of the first ter...