ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,730, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Flood attack defense method and related apparatus" was invented by Wan Xue (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flood attack defense method and a related apparatus. A first node receives a first packet from a second node. The first packet includes a source IPv6 address of a data packet, and the source IPv6 address of the data packet is a next-hop address in a routing table or a forwarding table of the first node. The first node establishes a first neighbor cache entry. A destination IPv6 address included in the first neighbor cache entry is ...