ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,941, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nanjing University Of Posts And Telecommunications (Jiangsu, China).

"Routing decision method and system based on traffic prediction" was invented by Yongan Guo (Jiangsu, China), Dequan Yu (Jiangsu, China), Hao She (Jiangsu, China) and Qijie Qian (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a routing decision method and system based on traffic prediction. The method is used for obtaining each data link to be analyzed between a starting point and an ending point of a direct connection or an indirect connection for forwarding data packets to be forwarded in a target network area...