ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,749, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and device for storing and forwarding content, electronic apparatus and storage medium using the same" was invented by Congqi Shen (Hangzhou, China), Xingchang Guo (Hangzhou, China), Hanguang Luo (Hangzhou, China), Qi Xu (Hangzhou, China), Tao Zou (Hangzhou, China) and Ruyun Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content store-and-forward method, apparatus, an electronic apparatus and a storage medium, the method comprising the following steps: receiving an interest packet in a named data network; forwarding the interest packet to a stora...