ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,050, issued on July 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for prioritizing among alternate network function (NF) instances" was invented by Virendra Singh (Bangalore, India), Ankit Srivastava (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Jay Rajput (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for prioritizing among alternate network function (NF) instances includes registering a first NF profile of a first NF instance with a first NF repository function (NRF), and defining, as part of the first NF profile, alternate NF instance information identifying a plurali...