ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,392, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet processing method and related device" was invented by Chenchen Guan (Nanjing, China) and Guifeng Liu (Cairo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet processing method and a related device are disclosed for saving access control list resources. A first network device receives a packet sent by a second network device. The packet reaches the first network device through a tunnel between the first network device and the second network device. The first network device determines a reserved port that is of the first network device and that corres...