ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,908, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Route optimization method, physical network device and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Huijing Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Xiang Li (Shenzhen, China) and Yajun Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route optimization method, a physical network device and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: acquiring a probe packet from at least one second physical network device, where the probe packet includes a host name and interface information; generating, according to the probe packet, an underlay routing t...