ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,569, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co. Ltd. (Zhuhai, China).

"Method and apparatus for network configuration" was invented by Xiaohu Wu (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network configuration method includes establishing wireless connection with n second image-forming apparatuses, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 1; updating a connection state information table pre-stored according to the wireless connection established with the n second image-forming apparatuses; based on the updated connection state information table, determining m image-forming apparatuses to-be-connected-...