ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,724, issued on March 3, was assigned to Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Sequential processing method and apparatus of data packet" was invented by Yuan Liao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a data packet processing method and apparatus, when multiple data packets and descriptors are continuously received, the data packet processing apparatus stores the data packets in a cache unit, and the multiple data packets are processed respectively, by multiple processing units, in parallel and at the same time according to the descriptors of the multiple data packets."

The pat...