ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,490, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Network structure and method for sending/receiving packet between network elements in network" was invented by Chong Zhu (Xi'an, China), Zhipeng Wu (Wuhan, China) and Feng Liu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet sending method includes, when a network element in a serial network receives a to-be-forwarded packet at a previous node from a previous network element, and when the network element needs to send a to-be-sent packet at a current node, determining whether the to-be-sent packet at the current node and the to-be-forward...