US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on May 13 for "Stateless and secure packet forwarding" (New Jersey, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,445, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Stateless and secure packet forwarding" was invented by Adiseshu Hari (Holmdel, N.J.), Gordon Wilfong (Portland, Ore.) and Tv Lakshman (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments for supporting multicast are presented herein. Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast may be configured to support stateless multicasting of packets based on encoding of multicast path information within the packets. Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicasting of packets based on encoding of...