US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on June 17 for "Dynamic discovery mechanism in 5G systems and methods" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,329, issued on June 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Dynamic discovery mechanism in 5G systems and methods" was invented by Robert Engelhart (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamically managing network functions (NFs) in a network such as 5G network are disclosed. The method includes instantiating a new NF associated with a target region; iteratively querying one or more network repository functions (NRFs) for lists of NFs associated with smaller regions based on a preceding response; and registering the new NF based on one or more responses to the iterative queries." ...