ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,693, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet processing method and apparatus, and device" was invented by Jingrong Xie (Beijing), Haibo Wang (Beijing) and Gang Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet processing method includes a second device that sends a first packet to a first device, where the first packet includes a first segment routing header (SRH). After receiving the first packet, the first device determines whether the first packet includes a first segment identifier. When the first packet includes the first segment identifier, the first device deletes the firs...