ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,176, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Pairing method and apparatus" was invented by Jing Chen (Shanghai) and Yong Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a pairing method and apparatus, applied to the field of communications technologies and the field of connected vehicles. The method includes: A first node sends a first message, where the first message includes indication information of at least one pairing method supported by the first node; and receives a second message from a second node, where the second message includes indi...