ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,677, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Route sending method and device" was invented by Jun Ge (Beijing), Haibo Wang (Beijing), Lili Wang (Beijing) and Lei Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route sending method and a device are provided. The method includes: A second network device receives a first route sent by a first network device, where the first route includes an IP address of a source network device and first identification information identifying that an IP address of the first network device belongs to a first type, and the first network device is a next-hop netwo...