ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,455, issued on July 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods, entities, and computer readable media for routing path discovery" was invented by Yunjie Lu (Shanghai), Magnus Hallenstal (Taby, Sweden), Maria Cruz Bartolome Rodrigo (Madrid) and Aldo Bolle (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, entities and computer readable storage media for routing path discovery. The method at a first entity includes: transmitting, to a second entity, a request message for aggregated routing related information; and receiving, from the second entity, a re...