ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,055, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Route determining method and apparatus and network device" was invented by Haibo Wang (Beijing), Shunwan Zhuang (Beijing) and Cheng Sheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route determining method, apparatus, and a network device are disclosed. The method includes a first forwarding node receives routing information from a second forwarding node, and then sends a packet to a destination node based on the routing information. The routing information includes a node identifier of the destination node and at least one piece of indication inf...