ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,996, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ruijie Networks Co. Ltd. (Fuzhou, China).

"Decentralized network device system, method, network cloud packet forwarder, and readable storage medium" was invented by Ligen Lai (Fuzhou, China), Xiangdong Jiang (Fuzhou, China), Danning Lin (Fuzhou, China) and Guohua Huang (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a decentralized network device system, method, network cloud packet forwarder, and readable storage medium. The system includes: one or more network cloud packet forwarders NCPs, including one or more candidate management NCPs and a primary manag...