ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,165, issued on May 19, was assigned to GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Foshan, China) and MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).

"Network configuration terminal, network configuration method for home appliance, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Shumiao Kong (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A home appliance network configuration method includes sending, by a network configuration terminal, a generation instruction of generating an initial code to a target home appliance, and acquiring, based on the generation instruction, the initial code generated by the target home appliance, for a contro...