ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,324, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Morris Routing Technologies LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Methods, systems, and computer program products for associating a name with a network path" 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 associating a name with a network path. In an aspect, a first message is received, from a first node by a second node via a first network path in a network. A first symbolic identifier of the first node is identified, wherein the first network path includes a first hop included in communicatively coupling the first node and the second node....