US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 24 for "Method and apparatus for Wi-Fi connection using Wi-Fi protected setup in portable terminal" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,396, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for Wi-Fi connection using Wi-Fi protected setup in portable terminal" was invented by Bu-Seop Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jung-Hun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for Wi-Fi connection based on Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes entering a group owner mode of Wi-Fi Direct when enabling of WPS is requested, after entering the group owner mode, entering a WPS session mode where the portable terminal is operable in a ...