ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,925, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Data forwarding" was invented by Dayong Shen (Beijing), Haohao Kang (Beijing) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for forwarding data. A switching device includes: one or more sets of uplink ports, configured to be coupled with a first external interface to transmit data with an upstream device via the first external interface; one or more sets of downlink ports, configured to be coupled with a second external interface t...