ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,940, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for packet rerouting" was invented by Lin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Ying Huang (Shenzhen, China), Liping Wang (Shenzhen, China), Hao Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Xueying Diao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for packet rerouting. In one embodiment, a method of packet rerouting includes receiving, by a wireless node from a donor central unit (CU), packet rerouting configuration information, and rerouting, by the wireless node, a transmission of a packet from a first transmission path t...