US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for advertising IP version 6 network layer routing information with an IP version 4 next hop address" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,985, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for advertising IP version 6 network layer routing information with an IP version 4 next hop address" was invented by Gyan S. Mishra (Boyds, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a first network device may encode Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) next hop of Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) information. The first network device may advertise the IPv6 information to a second network device via an IPv4 border gateway protocol. The first network device may forward an IPv6 packet via an IPv4 inter...