ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,799, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Access network device selection method and apparatus" was invented by Yishan Xu (Shanghai), Kang Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Chuan Ma (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an access network device selection method and an apparatus. In the method, the terminal device may indicate, to a DNS through one or more of first indication information, second indication information, and at least one GIN, whether the terminal device needs to support external authentication. Therefore, when selecting the non-3GPP access network de...