ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,060, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Access control method and related device" was invented by Bingyang Liu (Shenzhen, China), Xue Yang (Shenzhen, China), Ting Xu (Nanjing, China) and Chuang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy enforcement device receives a first data packet sent by a source device. The first data packet carries information about a source security group and information about a destination security group, where the source security group is a security group to which the source device belongs, and where the destination security group is a securi...