ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,685, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Airoha Technology (Suzhou) Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Method for forwarding vector packet processing" was invented by Fei Yan (Suzhou, China) and Peng Du (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forwarding a vector packet processing (VPP) is applicable to a forwarding path. The forwarding path includes an interface entrance, a data plane development kit (DPDK) input end, an entrance labeling-and-categorizing plug-in unit, one or more intermediate nodes, a Tx output end, an exit labeling-and-categorizing plug-in unit, and an interface exit. The vector packet processing forwarding m...