ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,601, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Morris Routing Technologies LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Routing methods, systems, and computer program products" was invented by Robert Paul Morris (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for routing based on a path-based protocol address. Data is detected, by a current node in a current location in a network path, in a data unit that is specified according to a network protocol and that includes a first path-based protocol address including a plurality of path segment identifiers that identify respective path segments of a network path for transmitting data from a...