ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,260, issued on June 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for forwarding packet in SR network, device, and system" was invented by Zhibo Hu (Beijing) and Cheng Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forwarding a packet including: receiving a first packet, where a first packet header of the first packet includes a segment list used to forward the first packet, the segment list includes a plurality of sequentially arranged identifiers, each of the plurality of identifiers corresponds to one network device or one link, the list includes a first element whose length is 128 bits, the...