US Patent Issued to HP (Chongqing) on Jan. 13 for "Secure connection for a public wireless communications device" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,861, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HP (Chongqing) Co. Ltd (Chongqing, China).

"Secure connection for a public wireless communications device" was invented by Ashley Hellmann (Novato, Calif.), Xiaohui Dang (Suzhou, China), Robert Benjamin Foster (Eagle, Idaho), Nhu Quynh Pham Nguyen (Austin, Texas) and Titi Chen (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A public telecommunications device (100, 201, 301, 401, 501, 901) configured to detect a channel connection-initiation signal (403, 503) from a wireless communications device (100, 202, 302, 402, 502, 902) which is paired with the public telecommunications device and render a ...