ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,561, issued on Sept. 2.

"Network function request error handling" was invented by Prashanti Das (Bangalore, India), Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France) and Ioannis Mouroulis (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect, there is provided a method, comprising: receiving, by a service communication proxy from a network function consumer, a service request for a service by a network function producer, transmitting, in response to an error in obtaining an access token from a network repository function on the basis of the service request, a response to the service request to the network function consum...