ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,886, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multicast packet processing method, related apparatus, and device" was invented by Xuesong Geng (Beijing), Zhenbin Li (Beijing) and Jingrong Xie (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to multicast packet processing methods. One example method includes obtaining a first multicast packet, where destination information of the first multicast packet includes a first identifier indicating link information, a second identifier indicating a replication and forwarding operation, and a third identifier used to index desti...