ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,385, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Device identification method, and terminal device processing method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Liang Tao (Nanjing, China), Dewei Bao (Nanjing, China), Changlu Li (Nanjing, China), Lv Ding (Nanjing, China) and Wenlu Zhao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a device identification method includes: obtaining historical connection data of the second device belonging to a wireless local area network (WLAN), where the historical connection data reflects a connection status between each of at lea...