ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,933, issued on May 6, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network access method and apparatus" was invented by Huan Li (Shenzhen, China), Hualin Zhu (Shanghai) and Weisheng Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network access method and apparatus for improving network access accuracy of a terminal device are disclosed. A first network element (for example, an access management network element (for example, access and mobility management function (AMF) network element or a mobility management entity (MME) network element) or a unified data management (UDM) network element) obtains an access reques...