ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,324, issued on June 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Packet forwarding method, packet sending method, device, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Chenqiang Gao (Guangdong, China) and Jinghai Yu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a packet forwarding method, applied to a forwarding device, including: receiving a target packet carrying source period information which includes a predetermined period length and a source period identification; and determining a corresponding forwarding period identification according to the predetermined period length and the source pe...