ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,534, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Access point and communication connection method therefor" was invented by Junbum Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Fan Sang (Atlanta), Meng Xu (Atlanta) and Taesoo Kim (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point and a communication connection method are provided. The access point includes a communication apparatus for supporting a wireless communication network, a memory that stores a plurality of passwords for connection to the wireless communication network and authority information for e...