US Patent Issued to Orange on Sept. 23 for "Method for connecting an electronic device, e.g. a smart speaker, to a target wireless access point" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,106, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for connecting an electronic device, e.g. a smart speaker, to a target wireless access point" was invented by Zhihong Guo (Beijing Dongcheng District, China) and Liang Han (Beijing Dongcheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for triggering a wireless connection of an electronic device to a target wireless access point is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises detecting a voice command inputted at a microphone of the device; and sending, from the electronic device to the target wireless access point, a probe request in...