ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,041, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ACER Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Connection authentication system and method" was invented by Sheng-Hsiung Yao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ling-Fan Tsao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yen-Ju Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection authentication method is provided in the invention. The connection authentication method may comprise the following steps. A master device may provide a white list to a wireless network device, wherein the white list comprises white list information of at least one authorized device. Then, the wireless network device may connect to the at least one autho...