ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,206, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Routing method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Jun Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a routing method, an apparatus, and a system. In the method, first user equipment (UE) determines that a target node and a next-hop node of a first data packet are respectively a network device and first relay UE, and sends the first data packet, an identifier of the first UE, an identifier of the first relay UE, and an identifier of the network device to the first relay UE. According to the method, UE (for example,...