ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,367, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Method for sending and forwarding packet, head node, forwarding node and storage medium" was invented by Yao Liu (Guangdong, China), Zheng Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Aihua Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for sending a packet, applied to a head node, including: generating a packet according to a transmission path, and sending the packet, with the transmission path passing through at least two domains, the packet including at least one path extension header, and each path extension header corresponding ...