ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,321, issued on March 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for reporting a reserved load to network functions in a communications network" was invented by Rajiv Krishan (Bangalore, India) and Sonal Jain (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer readable media for reporting a reserved load to a network function in a communications network are disclosed. One method includes determining, by a NF service producer, a current compute load metric value for the NF service producer operating in a communications network and ...