ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,480, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Buffer configuration method and switching device" was invented by Tao Wu (Nanjing, China), Jian Yan (Nanjing, China), Yongxian Chen (Nanjing, China), Heyang Liu (Nanjing, China), Huafeng Wen (Nanjing, China) and Liyang Sun (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer configuration method and a switching device are disclosed, to ensure no packet loss, and belongs to the field of network technologies. The method includes: sending, by a first switching device, a first measurement frame to a second switching device; receiving, by the firs...