ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,699, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Connecting to a WLAN using an authorization code and a key" was invented by Jin Zhang (Xi'an, China), Shaobo Hui (Xi'an, China) and Kang An (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example implementation, a first electronic device connects to a non-authentication network of a wireless access device; a server randomly generates an authorization code, and the first electronic device and the wireless access device obtains the authorization code; and the wireless access device sends, to the first electronic device, network configuration in...