ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,470, issued on May 13.

"Packet tracing mechanism in a network leveraging SRv6" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels) and Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a packet tracing mechanism will be described that provides packet tracing information to a mobile network controller. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a data packet sent from a source node to a destination node; determining if the data packet is to be updated with packet tracing information; and upon determining that the data packet is to be updated, updating the packet tracing information of the data pack...