ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,677, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Packet processing including an ingress packet part distributor" was invented by Amir Roozbeh (Stockholm), Alireza Farshin (Stockholm), Marco Chiesa (Sollentuna, Sweden), Dejan Kostic (Solna, Sweden) and Tom Francois G. Barbette (Liege, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive an ingress packet that includes a header and a payload, wherein the header includes data stored in a plurality of fields according to a predefined format. The network device may send different, potentially overlapping, parts of the ingress packet...