ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,843, issued on June 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for access control of a small size and infrequent data transmission" was invented by Ran Yue (Haidian District, China), Jing Han (Chaoyang District, China), Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China), Jie Shi (Haidian District, China) and Lianhai Wu (Chaoyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for access control of a small size and infrequent data transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes: receiving access control configurat...