ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,994, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Guangdong, China).

"Methods for verifying service function chain, sending node, forwarder node, and service function node" was invented by Yao Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for verifying a service function chain, which is applied by a sending node, and the method includes: sending service function chain verification request information; and the service function chain verification request information is a Segment Routing packet, and a Segment List of the service function chain verification request informati...