ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,356, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Geographically intelligent network function request routing" was invented by Yesh Goel (Bengaluru, India) and Ahmed Akl (Little Elm, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regional NRF may register NFs, and the registration information may include locality information for each registered NF. During synchronization with a root NRF, the regional NRF provides the locality information for each registered NF. During discovery request routing by the root NRF, the root NRF prioritizes regional NRFs having NFs that satisfy the discovery parameters of th...