ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,211, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ADTRAN NETWORKS SE (Meiningen Ot Dreissigacker, Germany).

"Automatic NFV service chain failure recovery due to compute node failures" was invented by Manas Kumar Mal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for providing an automatic recovery of at least one service chain including interlinked virtual functions of a cloud computing system is provided. One method includes generating backups of the virtual machines on which virtual functions of the service chain are deployed to provide snapshot states of the respective virtual machines. The metho...