ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,557, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Ethernet frame framing method and device" was invented by Jian Yang (Shenzhen, China), Jie Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Feng Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an Ethernet frame framing method and device. The method includes: a receiving end receiving a data stream with a fine granularity-basic unit (Fg-BU); and the receiving end judging whether an Fg-BU frame is locked or unlocked according to whether the Fg-BU frame in the data stream is normal. In the present disclosure, the receiving end may judge whether the Fg-BU frame is locked or un...