ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,986, issued on May 26, was assigned to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronauitcs (Jiangsu, China).

"Method for SFC deployment and migration based on VNF-dependent components" was invented by Ran Wang (Jiangsu, China), Yuhan Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Qiang Wu (Jiangsu, China) and Jie Hao (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for SFC deployment and migration based on VNF-dependent components, which pertains to the field of communication technologies. The method jointly optimizes SFC deployment and migration policies with consideration of VNF-dependent component migration, and is used for addressing ...