ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,818, issued on Aug. 5.

"Data routing in communications systems" was invented by Anton L. Kapela (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a computer program product for data routing in communications systems. A data packet is received and source of the data packet is determined. based on the source of the data packet, a forwarding route for transmission of the data packet is determined. The forwarding route includes at least one of the following: a known content route and a default content route. The data packet is transmitted based on the determined forwarding route."

The patent was filed on May 14, 2021,...