ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,860, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Optimal fault management reporting via NF level northbound fault reporting agent" was invented by Virendra Reddy (Bangalore, India) and Prasaanth Gowravalli (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, computer readable medium, and system for reporting data to a Northbound Management System (NBMS) via a Network Function (NF) level Northbound Fault reporting Microservice (MS) in an NF of a Radio Access Network (RAN). The method includes: receiving, by a Fault Management (FM) MS from at least one other MS of the NF, events data; processing,...