ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,898, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Conditional routing delivery in a compromised network" was invented by Uma S. Chunduri (Fremont, Calif.), Stewart Bryant (Merstham, Great Britain), Alexander Clemm (Los Gatos, Calif.), Toerless Eckert (Mountain View, Calif.) and Richard Li (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for processing a data packet in a network node includes determining a level of deterioration of a primary path between the network node and the destination node. The determined level of deterioration is based at least on a non-congest...