ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,341, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for improved network function (NF) discovery between forwarded and forwarding NF repository functions (NRFs) to avoid preemption of NF profiles of producer NFs local to forwarding NRF" was invented by Amarnath Jayaramachar (Bangalore, India), Yesh Goel (Bangalore, India) and Doki Satish Kumar Patro (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for network function (NF) discovery between forwarded and forwarding NF repository functions (NRFs) includes receiving, at a forwarding NRF, an...