US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 23 for "Security authentication method and apparatus applied to Wi-Fi" (Chinese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,260, issued on June 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Security authentication method and apparatus applied to Wi-Fi" was invented by Yanjiang Yang (Singapore), Kai Liu (Shanghai), Yanjie Gu (Shenzhen, China) and Lianbing Tian (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a security authentication method and apparatus applied to Wi-Fi. An access point AP negotiates, based on a password, a pairwise master key PMK with a first device based on a twin base password encrypted key exchange TBPEKE protocol, where the password is a shared key between the AP and the first device; and the...