ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,415, issued on May 13, was assigned to PETAL CLOUD TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for guiding smart device to connect to network, medium, control terminal, and system" was invented by Zhimin Lu (Nanjing, China) and Puchao Zhang (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for guiding a smart device to connect to a wireless network includes that the smart device sends a device identifier (ID) and a cloud service address that are of the smart device to a control terminal. The control terminal obtains, from a corresponding cloud server based on the received device ID and the cloud service address, network configuratio...