ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,228, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Route management method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Shunwan Zhuang (Beijing), Haibo Wang (Beijing), Yunan Gu (Beijing) and Zhongqi Xia (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route management and autonomous system (AS) management system and method. The method includes obtaining a correspondence, where the correspondence comprises a first autonomous system (AS) identifier and a second AS identifier, and where the correspondence indicates that the first AS identifier and the second AS identifier are sibling ASes, and performin...