ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,385, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for implementing a service in a service chain and electronic device associated thereto" was invented by Matthieu Verdier (Chatillon, France), Jean-Philippe Wary (Chatillon, France) and Gilles Macario-Rat (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for implementing a current service, of a chain of n services, the method including receiving, from the service preceding the current service in the chain, a first routing token comprising message routing data between the services of the chain and a first chaining token comprisin...