US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on March 17 for "Secure network configuration and/or access using user device" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,297, issued on March 17, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Secure network configuration and/or access using user device" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing secure network configuration and/or secure network access using a user device. In various embodiments, after establishing a secure wireless connection with a local network device, in some cases, by scanning and decoding a barcode (including connectivity data for connecting with the local network device) that is af...