ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,592, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mitigating network security attacks by linking network function (NF) discovery results with subsequent messages at proxy NF" was invented by Jay Rajput (Bangalore, India), Shashikiran Bhalachandra Mahalank (Bangalore, India), Virendra Singh (Bangalore, India) and John Nirmal Mohan Raj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mitigating network security attacks by linking NF discovery results to subsequent messages includes receiving, at a proxy NF, NF discovery messages. ...