ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,444, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Service-based network function selection for roaming scenarios involving multiple home core networks" was invented by Ravi Shekhar (Maharashtra, India), Vimal Srivastava (Karnataka, India), Irfan Ali (San Francisco) and Ravi Kiran Guntupalli (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are techniques to facilitate service-based network function (NF) selection for roaming scenarios involving multiple home core networks. In one instance, a method may include obtaining, by a visited public land mobile network (PLMN) from a home PLMN that i...