ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,851, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Packet processing method and system, and network device" was invented by Boyuan Yu (Nanjing, China), Qi Yu (Hangzhou, China), Penghe Tang (Nanjing, China), Yi Kai (Shenzhen, China), Huanhuan Zhang (Nanjing, China) and Nu Xia (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet processing method and system, and a network device are disclosed, and belong to the field of network technologies. A first network device sends a first packet to a second network device through a first tunnel, and sends a second packet to a third network device throug...