ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,892, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for authentication between network function repository functions across different networks" was invented by John Nirmal Mohan Raj (Bangalore, India) and Yesh Goel (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating between network function (NF) repository functions (NRFs) across different networks includes receiving, at an NRF in a first network, a request message from an NRF in a second network separate from the first network. The method further includes determining, by ...