ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,846, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network device, system and method for cycle-based load balancing" was invented by Paolo Medagliani (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Sebastien Martin (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Shuang Chen (Beijing) and Jeremie Leguay (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of transport networks, packet-based network systems, and load balancing in such network systems. More specifically, the load balancing is performed on a network cycle level. The present disclosure provides a network device for...