ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,760, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Access control method and related apparatus" was invented by Bingfei Ren (Beijing) and Zhewen Mao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: an electronic device sends a sign-in request to enable a management party device to learn that the electronic device has entered a specific environment. The management party device selects one access policy from one or more stored access policies based on one or more of the following: restriction levels for the specific environment, restriction categories for functions of electronic devices i...