ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,156, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for actively obtaining producer network function (NF) reachability status information by NF repository function (NRF) in response to NF heart-beat failure" was invented by Yesh Goel (Bangalore, India) and Amarnath Jayaramachar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for actively obtaining producer network function (NF) reachability status information by an NF repository function (NRF) in response to an NF heart-beat failure includes detecting, by an NRF, an NF heart-beat failure...