ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,070, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for communicating and using producer network function (NF) network slice level load information" was invented by Virendra Singh (Bangalore, India), Shashikiran Bhalachandra Mahalank (Bangalore, India) and Jay Rajput (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating and using producer network function (NF) network slice level load information includes receiving, by a service communication proxy (SCP) and from a producer NF, a service-based interface (SBI) message includin...