ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,429, issued on July 1, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Data forwarding method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Guangping Huang (Guangdong, China) and Yong Chen (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a data forwarding method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The data forwarding method includes: in response to receiving a user access request, encapsulating a meta array of a first communication node and an original access control message to obtain a first access control message; and forwarding the first access control message to a second communication node accor...