ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,654, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Flexible authorization access control method, related apparatus, and system" was invented by Zhewen Mao (Beijing) and Bingfei Ren (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a flexible authorization access control method, a related apparatus, and a system. In the method, if an electronic device that receives an access request does not meet an authorization condition, is currently not suitable for authorization, or cannot currently obtain authorization from a user in time, the electronic device may select one electronic dev...