ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,551, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and communication apparatus" was invented by Kai Pan (Shanghai), Miao Yang (Beijing) and Mingchao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a communication method, when MAC addresses in a plurality of VSI messages conflict, in response to only some of the VSI messages, a VSI message receiving end sends an action response message carrying a conflicting MAC address. In this way, a device that can correctly decrypt the action response message can decrypt, for a few times, ciphertext information in received actio...