ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,863, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for detecting and mitigating security attacks on producer network functions (NFs) using error response messages" was invented by Sonia Kadyan (New Delhi), Jay Rajput (Bangalore, India), John Nirmal Mohan Raj (Bangalore, India) and Ashish Jyoti Sharma (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting and mitigating security attacks on producer NFs using error response messages includes tracking, by a proxy NF, rates of error response messages generated in response to inter-PLMN SB...