ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,283, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Packet forwarding method, computer device, and intermediate device" was invented by Lei Huang (Hangzhou, China), Tao Li (Hangzhou, China) and Rongyu Yang (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate device in a computer device includes a first agent unit supporting single-root input/output (I/O) virtualization (SR-IOV) and a second agent unit supporting Virtio, and the first agent unit and the second agent unit each are an agent of a function unit in a network adapter such that, a virtual machine in the computer device may use...