ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,374, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data search method and apparatus, and network device" was invented by Jing Hu (Beijing) and Yang Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data search apparatus includes a plurality of storage modules configured to store a data table. Any one of the plurality of storage modules stores a part of entries of the data table. Any entry in the data table is unique in the plurality of storage modules, and storage addresses of entries stored in at least one of the plurality of storage modules are inconsecutive."

The patent was filed on July 5, 20...