ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,807, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Devices and methods for privacy-preserving routing in communication networks" was invented by Antoine Fressancourt (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Luigi Iannone (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Zhe Lou (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for routing data packets in a communication network from a source node to a destination node via one or more intermediate routing nodes in a privacy-preserving manner are disclosed. The source node is configured to concatenate a first routing vector element including a first bit pattern wit...