ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,845, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network access method and apparatus" was invented by Chenchen Yang (Ottawa), Yinghao Jin (Shanghai) and Wei Tan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a network access method and an apparatus. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a second network device, access capability information from a first network device, where the first network device is a network device in a first-type network, the access capability information indicates a capability of the first network device to access a second-type network, and th...