ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,838, issued on June 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Connection status detection method and related device" was invented by Xiangan Luo (Mexico City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection status detection method used for detecting connectivity of a segment routing (SR) path between nodes is disclosed. After receiving a path detection packet, a first node responds to the path detection packet based on connectivity of an SR path between the first node and a third node, and the path detection packet is used to indicate to detect the connectivity of the segment routing (SR) path between the nodes...