ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,807, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Route processing method and related device" was invented by Weiguo Hao (Nanjing, China), Haibo Wang (Beijing), Xingjian He (Nanjing, China), Gang Yan (Beijing) and Liangchuan Gao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device obtains first information. The first information indicates that a first link is faulty, and the first link is a link between any two network devices in a network system to which the first network device belongs. The first network device sends the first information to a second network device by using BGP,...