ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,440, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Segment routing method and apparatus" was invented by Ruobin Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a segment routing method and apparatus. The method includes: An ingress routing device receives a packet sent by a terminal device; and obtains a functional program corresponding to the packet of the terminal device. The functional program is used to indicate one or more sequential computing processing steps/instructions, service processing steps/instructions, or network processing steps/instructions, the fu...