ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,749, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for static context header compression instantiation" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France), Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France) and Jp Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media are provided for encoding, within the SRH-6LoRH field within a data packet, an IPv6 address that can be used to decompress the SCHC information in the data packet. A rule is generated that indicates that the first...