ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,852, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, apparatus, and system for sending packet and receiving packet to perform OAM" was invented by Tianran Zhou (Beijing), Min Liu (Shenzhen, China), Yuezhong Song (Beijing) and Zhenbin Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to perform operations, administrative, and maintenance (OAM) includes a controller generating a policy configuration packet, where the policy configuration packet includes OAM configuration information and information about a first path, and the information about the first path is used to identify the first...