ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,769, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Source route compression" was invented by Pranjal Kumar Dutta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments for supporting source routing are presented herein. Various example embodiments for supporting source routing may be configured to support source route compression for source routing. Various example for supporting source route compression for source routing may be configured to support communication of a source routed packet over a path from an ingress node to an egress node over a network, wherein the n...