ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,198, issued on July 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for overriding a preferred locality attribute value using preferred location attribute values and traffic distribution attribute values" was invented by Yesh Goel (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for overriding a preferred locality attribute value using preferred location attribute values and traffic distribution attribute values to facilitate a desired traffic distribution among producer NFs includes receiving, from a query originator, an NF discovery request including a...