ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,955, issued on July 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for securing sensitive data to be transmitted in 5G and subsequent generation networks" was invented by Rajiv Krishan (Cary, N.C.) and Anup Shivarajapura (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to another aspect of the subject matter described herein, includes receiving or generating a service based interface (SBI) request message. The method further includes identifying a next-hop network function (NF) of the SBI request message. The method further includes determining, from a r...