ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,930, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Service protection method and network node" was invented by Xianlong Luo (Wuhan, China), Gang Xie (Wuhan, China) and Hao Li (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a service protection method, including: A first node determines that a fault occurs on a first working path; the first node generates a bandwidth activation message based on the fault, where the bandwidth activation message indicates a third node to adjust a bandwidth of a service from a protection bandwidth to a target bandwidth, the prote...