ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,608, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Routing method and apparatus" was invented by Yibin Zhuo (Shenzhen, China), Yuanping Zhu (Shanghai), Yulong Shi (Beijing), Mingzeng Dai (Shenzhen, China) and Jing Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides routing methods and apparatuses. One example method includes that a first node receives a data packet. The first node determines a Backhaul Adaptation Protocol (BAP) header in the data packet, where the BAP header includes a BAP address of a destination node of the data packet and first information. The first informati...